arstechnica.com — Current technology can break Web type free from the Georgia/Verdana prison, but getting all the stakeholders - Web designers, type designers, font vendors, and browser vendors - to agree on a standard may be a bigger challenge than the technology.
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Closed AccountJul 7, 2009
What the hell, what?Really? That's frightening.
Closed AccountJul 7, 2009
There is technology that can do that (Flash, Flex) and you are welcome to design specifically for it. I hate that misconception that just because it is old, it can't handle new technology. What the f**k? If the technology exists, then it can handle it. Everything you listed can be done and that is what is so great about the web. It has evolved and is so expansive (HTML and CSS included). If you get a giant mess of DIV and SPAN tags, maybe you suck at XHTML.
moothemagiccowJul 7, 2009
Graphic design has nothing to do with web design. Web design is about communicating information, not looking fantastic.
pikeukJul 7, 2009
CSS already has support for layout using tables (supported in IE8 and all the other browsers):<a class="user" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html</a>The last thing we need is to start from scratch and wait another decade or two for IE to catch up, not to mention requiring a trillion web pages to be rewritten.
brandontranJul 26, 2009
While I am fine with just the standard arial font types, I can see how other designers need specific fonts to change their design look and feel. Although I am not one to be finicky over a font that is a little different here and there. The information seems to be more important.