Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • An Event Apart New Orleans 2008: Short Synopsis

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    Other then the flight from Detroit to New Orleans on a much too small and therefore cramped jet – avoid CRJ-type aircraft if you can – An Event Apart was great. I highly recommend the conference because of the content and the wonderful people who share it. New Orleans was a great location – the…

  • A Google blunder?

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    Google today released (at least to public preview) a web application environment generically called Google App Engine. One of the featured demo applications Huddle Chat is receiving a lot of criticism (John Gruber, Kevin Heisler) for its striking “resemblance” to 37 Signals’ Campfire web application. Resemblance being a polite way of saying copying. When the design…

  • Apple might want to rewrite that…

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    Ben
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    First see here: www.apple.com/safari. Click on the “Graphics and Fonts” link on the left. Then read the 3rd paragraph. With CSS3 web fonts in Safari 3.1, web designers can go beyond web-safe fonts and use any font they want to create stunning new websites using standards-based technology. Safari automatically recognizes websites that use custom fonts and…