Paul Irish

A short while ago, I pulled together some bright minds in the emerging web fonts scene: Tim Brown of Nice Web Type, Zoltan Hawryluk, and Ethan Dunham of Font Squirrel. I thought it would be wise to share notes and begin talking about cross-platform/browser type rendering (that lasagna of complexity), in order to clarify the entire process for ourselves and others and find ways to make web type look better.

Basically, I want @font-face text to look damn good.

Now we've set some goals and would like to open up the dialogue. We'll need your participation, and lots of expert advice, to fulfill these intentions. Follow Type Rendering on Twitter.

Check out How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript to learn about an algorithm Zoltan has developed for determining whether a visitor's web browser uses font smoothing technology when rendering type.

If you want to see rich typography succeed, tell folks you care about how type looks on the web.

We'll be exploring all the layers involved in making sure web fonts are implemented in the best possible way. We'll need your help, too.

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I just released version 1.4 of the jQuery Infinite Scroll plugin. Along with that comes a new release of the wordpres plugin. A few small bugs were fixed in the wordpress code, improving compatibility with other plugins and themes.

I've also added the ability to manually trigger loading in new content. This allows you to do a twitter or facebook style of interaction where the user must click an element for the new data to come in.

A demo showing that functionality. The documentation of how to use this style is on the documentation page.

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A few friends of mine got together to put together a new podcast we're calling…

yayQuery!

In our inaugural episode I'm joined by Rebecca Murphey, Alex Sexton (of goto.js fame), and Adam Sontag (ajpiano). We talk about…

• Underscore.js - a great utility belt (very handy for Ruby/Python folks), comes with John Resig's microtemplating script and lots more
• Thickbox - Rest in peace. Also alternatives: Colorbox, jQuery UI Dialog
• jQuery on mobile. Phonegap, XUI, jQTouch, going it alone
• Anti-Pattern of the week: css(key,val)
• $var and Hungarian notation
• … and dancing

Moar?

We hope to do this again (and again) and make things better. We're also working on proper podcast feeds and a site.

But really this is an experiment, for now. We'd love any and all feedback.

… and follow us on twitter to get your fix!! @yayquery

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