I put together a quick example of CSS3 @font-face with open-source type from The League of Moveable Type - Junction, Chunk and Sorts Mill Goudy. If your audience uses current browsers this font embedding option has great potential. View the example
Screenshots of how things look in a Firefox 3.5 which supports @font-face and in IE7 which does not.
You've designed and coded a website and now you want to see how it looks across multiple browsers and platforms. What's the fastest, easiest and best way to test? If you have the resources you could install all of the browsers on all of the platforms you are developing for. Another option would be to use a web based service that does most of the hard work for you in a few clicks. The following is a review of four major web based browser capture services.
ContinuedMy initial thoughts - very Flash like animation and Google is confident HTML5 will be the standard. Also the tagline "Not your mother's JavaScript" is somewhat funny although hard to picture.
"we wanted to create a showcase for innovative uses of web browsers and JavaScript... We're very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers."
Google Chrome is built to be fast in keeping with Google's quest to keep things lean an mean. The following are two related articles.
Chrome's Hidden Feature: Blazing Speed (Gadgetwise)
"Chrome’s speed boost over Internet Explorer and Firefox is so obvious to a nontechnical surfer"
Google Feels the Need for More Speed With Chrome 2.0 (Webmonkey)
"Google claims that Chrome 2.0 loads pages about 30 percent faster."
I came across this (Design Challenge - Summer 09) a few weeks ago and sketched out a few ideas not really sure if I would end up submitting something. The Design Challenge is described as "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser - How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?" I spent the last few nights turning the sketches into a mockup and creating a quick video to explain the idea and functionality. Overall I'm happy with the end result given the time I put into it. The deadline is today (6/21) and I'm hoping to spend some time looking at the other entries over the next week.
See my sketches and mockup, video and a showcase of all entries.
Why did Google build a browser and when did it all begin? Read the complete Wired Magazine story - Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web