Rant
Increasingly I’m getting emails with the above mentioned somewhere in the email and really it’s getting annoying for oh so many reasons:
First there’s the fact it’s spam, yes spam is a problem that is likely to never go away but it doesn’t stop it being an annoyance.
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Through the latter part of 2009 and continuing into 2010 the web community has been buzzing about font embedding. The growing support for font-face throughout modern browsers brought us more options than the few “web-safe” font’s that have been in use since the early days of the web. Although the support was there it still took the likes of Typekit to bring us new font’s en-masse. Their system of using the font’s managed to quell the concerns of some font foundries and open up a wider range of font’s for us to utilise.
Yet many designers have taken the fact that we can use these new font’s as carte blanche to go mad, using new font’s at every opportunity. Yet in truth the web isn’t ready for all these fonts, or at least our systems aren’t.
I’m not one for off topic posts but after spending close to 60 hours playing Final Fantasy XIII I needed somewhere to vent my frustrations. With my experience of the Final Fantasy franchise limited to the two movies I bought the game simply on the weight of the visuals within the trailer. The trailer was movie quality and really peaked my interest in the story, the game didn’t bother me. Now after 60 hours of game play my opinion hasn’t changed and Final Fantasy 13 has a big problem.
When the BBC first released the beta version of the new BBC homepage a couple of weeks ago I was initially disappointed. On first impressions it just didn’t seem a radical enough change and some parts just didn’t look balanced anymore with odd padding’s and margins. All this plus the clock was gone, sure it served little purpose but I loved the retroness of it. Sure the BBC gave a suitable response describing the changes they had put in place but this hadn’t answered my concerns. Something simply wasn’t right.
But now I’ve figured it out, they promised me so much more.