I was just about to install MacPorts on my OS X 10.6 system, and downloaded the latest package (1.9.1) from macports.org, only to get a dialog saying my MacPorts version was too old to update, and that I first needed to upgrade to 1.7.1. That didn’t install at all, but I found this snippet while [...]
Typography for the web is on the roll. Sites like fontsquirrel and fontspring offer loads of free and open-source embeddable fonts for hosting on your own server, and hosted solutions like typekit.com are partnering up with big type foundries like fontfont and veer. The big foundries have been a bit slow in adapting their font licenses for [...]
(this entry is a bit of a mess, just posting it for reference now, might get around to expand the topic at a later time) According to the internet, IE has issues with the UTF-8 version of subscript 2: CO₂ … which unfortunately turns out to be correct, also in IE8. IE just displays an [...]
When rendering typefaces for use with Cúfon or sIFR, it’s not enough with choosing basic latin if you want to be able to write in swedish or danish. Here’s the string I’m using for configuration: “”‘’…_&-–—åäöæøàèìòùáéíóúâêîôûäëïöüãõñçÅÄÖÆØÀÈÌÒÙÁÉÍÓÚÂÊÎÔÛÄËÏÖÜÃÕÑÇ©®™′″´×⁺ That tends to cover the most common issues, including WordPress punctuation. How to make it work Adding extra characters [...]
I’ll take two, please.
This song has been going around like the flu in the office the last couple of months. Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass… Here’s what has to be the funniest interpretation ever of it:
Finally breaking the silence around here, since Anders from ofokuserat challenged me in a band-relay game. I got the letter Z (which, I guess, is the last character?) and the first band that came to mind was Zero 7. But since I couldn’t think of a single song of theirs I really like, I’m going [...]
Here are parts of todays finds, jotted down for later reference: GZIP compression, HTTP Caching, the Pareto principle (plus the wikipedia equivalent), passing elements to event handlers with jQuery, CSS Compress for WordPress, This day in type, Pingdom, We love TXP, Jon Hicks’ google reader theme, lovely inspiring typography works by Craig Ward… … and [...]
Ah, finally flickr provides a way to organise one’s photosets! From the Flickr Blog: Today we launched what’s probably the most requested feature over the last few years: a way to categorize and organize your photo sets! In the past this feature has been referred to as “sets of sets” or “subsets”. After today, we’ll [...]
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I'm Björn Rixman, a designer/web developer living in Malmö. This site serves as a digital scrapbook of sorts, where I write about life, work, commuting, web standards, photography, design, usability, music and other things that interests me.
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