Archive for September, 2009

I just admire The League of Move­able Type. While a lot of font foundries are still work­ing on licens­ing issues with embed­ding fonts in PDFs. here a couple of font design­ers dis­covered @font-face and went lets make the world a bet­ter place. By cre­at­ing The League of Move­able Type, con­vin­cing a few fel­low font design­ers to join them in releas­ing fonts with an open source licence suit­able for embed­ding with @font-face.

Well I am speak­ing at the Edge of the Web Con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber. The title Pro­gress­ive Enhance­ment with CSS: Or how I stopped wor­ry­ing about IE6 and start­ing lov­ing CSS3.

The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the exper­i­ence of vis­it­ors using mod­ern browsers, while not block­ing access to those people still using older browsers like IE6 …

If you are like me, on occa­sions you have people want to paste dir­ectly from Word into CMS or Word­press. I was bemoan­ing the fact, that you either end up with Word HTML or lose all the format­ting, when a col­league of mine, Steven Miles sug­gest I use JavaS­cript to clean up the HTML and provide the some code.

So this is what I cre­ated to clean up Word HTML, you paste the HTML is to the edit­able div, hit the but­ton and if you are using Inter­net Explorer the con­ver­ted HTML is copied to your clip­board. So you can paste the clean HTML (note it is HTML code) straight into the CMS editor in HTML mode …

*** does not cur­rently work in IE8, I need to invest­ig­ate further ***