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Insightful knowledge abound here, relevant to designers everywhere — after all, Matthew Butterick, the site’s founder, is a well respected type designer cum lawyer.

Typography for Lawyers

As a huge Saab fan, this new TVC made me pretty happy.

We’ve been working on a new site for an iPhone developer, and ran into some performance issues with Safari and Chrome. Looks like Webkit has trouble with text-shadow..

Safari and Chrome have a bit of trouble with text-shadow..

So there I was, merrily developing a new site for a client.

The three product panels were fine, but I wanted to add a little animation to reveal further information, so I turned to my favourite javascript library, jQuery.

Using jQuery to move things around, fade them in and out and generally spice things up is pretty common these days, so I was surprised when I ran into a few performance issues testing the site in Webkit-based browsers Safari and Chrome that I hadn’t heard about. Both were having a big problems with all the motion and fading, with some serious and unacceptable lag. Firefox and IE didn’t share these problems, so I wracked my brains trying to work out what might be the cause.

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Absolutely ridiculous headline generator, as used by The Daily Mail.

Daily Mail Headline Generator

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