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Adobe and Google enhancing WebKit for better typography

83 pointsby kreekover 14 years ago

5 comments

aristusover 14 years ago
:( No hyphenation, kerning or leading. Knuth and Liang solved this problem decades ago. I dislike like having to hack it with Javascript. That lack is what makes web typography ugly, even in this demo.
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gallerytungstenover 14 years ago
This is an interesting demo, but it seems to focus more on "whizzy" things, instead of fixing more basic problem.<p>Now, in their defense, I thought the baseline alignment idea was pretty good. But if you look at their first demo of the "callout" text, you'll note that there are horrible rivers (open spaces) running through the type, making it look all clunky.<p>What's really needed is a straightforward wysiwig layout tool (like Quark or Illustrator, for example) that can generate clean CSS layouts.
itgover 14 years ago
Interesting response in the comments section<p><a href="http://bureau.tsailly.net/2010/11/wow-adobe-is-really-cool.html" rel="nofollow">http://bureau.tsailly.net/2010/11/wow-adobe-is-really-cool.h...</a>
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starpilotover 14 years ago
The least they could do is have the q tag render with smart quotes. This is already handled in Firefox properly.
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wdewindover 14 years ago
Web kit is a fail that has a tiny percentage of the browser use. Safari has too small of a % to be relevant (except mobile obv), and Chrome just screws up too many small things (despite being an otherwise overwhelmingly better browser than the alternatives).
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