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I want a Chromebook; in fact, I want a Chromephone. Easy on the OS, and hold the apps.
The coming of the Chromebook–the web-only netbook that boots in less than ten seconds–has me thinking how nice it would be if my Android phone booted up in 10 seconds instead of 60. But if it did, it wouldn’t be an Android phone, would it? It would be a Chromephone, and that’s all right with me.
If the telephony could be worked out, I don’t see why a phone couldn’t be made to run on a thin, browser-like OS that accesses almost all its content on the Cloud. As HTML5 is helping web content become more app-like, and as more of users’ content is stored online, there may soon be little need for onboard apps at all. We may be doing everything we need with Web apps. This may be the end of the OS as we know it. No more bloated platform-dependent apps. Microsoft never was a trailblazer, and Apple isn’t blazing trails anymore, either. Apple is announcing iCloud and OS X Lion tomorrow, and I’d say they’re just playing catch up. Microsoft say Windows 8 is going to have an HTML5 panel screen instead of a desktop, and by the time it comes out in a year or so, it will be as old news as Windows 95 = Mac 84.
As someone who embraced platform-independent Web development before it was popular, I am thrilled to see that HTML and CSS have now taken us to the point where just about any app can be a Web app. Pretty soon, there won’t be a need for five different Facebook apps; there will just be Facebook as a web app anyone can use the same way on any device. You won’t have to wait for your favorite Website to come out with an app for your device’s operating system, because web standards and powerful web functionality will make the question of device and OS moot.
I’m already doing just about everything online with the Chrome browser now except for editing photos and videos and opening Office documents on my iMac. The only thing I do on my laptop other that the Net is Microsoft Office if I have to, and I’m already using that less as I use Google Docs more. I’m ready to move away from bloated software and over to something simple, fast, and standard. Chrome is the OS of today.
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The Typekit Fonts Tutorial for WordPress.com (via United Stage)
For those who are in their TypeKit Editor and just want to know the CSS selectors used in the Twenty Ten theme, I am sharing this list compiled by David W. Boles. Thank you very much, David!
content, body, p, h3#comments-title, h3#reply-title, #access .menu, #access div.menu ul, #cancel-comment-reply-link, .form-allowed-tags, #site-info, #site-title, #wp-calendar, .comment-meta, .comment-body tr th, .comment-body thead th, .entry-content label, .entry-content tr th, .entry-content thead th, .entry-meta, .entry-title, .entry-utility, #respond label, .navigation, .page-title, .pingback p, .reply, .widget-title, .wp-caption-text, input[type="submit"], #access .menu-header, div.menu, #colophon, #branding, #main, #wrapper, blockquote, blockquote cite, blockquote em, blockquote i, body, input, textarea, .page-title span, .pingback a.url, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
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Why I’m not using Typekit Fonts yet
I tried installing Typekit fonts on this blog, and I almost gave up because the complexity of it reminded me of why I moved my blogs from WordPress.org to WordPress.com. I suppose it would have been easier if Typekit had built-in support for the Twenty Ten theme, but when I tried it a couple of weeks ago, they didn’t. So I had to open one of my blog pages in Safari, select Develop from the menu (because I installed the optional developer tools), select Show Web Inspector, and study the CSS to suss out what the “selectors” were for the masthead and other sections of the pages I wanted to set the new fonts to. Even knowing CSS, it took some searching through the code to see what was styling what, since Classes and IDs are arbitrarily created by each CSS author.
Once I found the Classes and IDs, I had to go back to the Typekit editor (which always took a long time to load, as did everything else on the Typekit site) and manually enter the “selectors” I wanted to apply the fonts to. I found that I had to do it with periods in front rather than hashmarks, or maybe it was the other way around— I would have to be writing CSS on a regular basis to get it right, and who does? (If you do, then you wouldn’t find it complicated at all, but then you might as well have a WordPress.org site and not a WordPress.com site, eh?)
Test of Inline CSS in WordPress.com Blog
Apparently, you can’t use embedded style sheets in WordPress.com, but you can use inline styles. In this post, I’m going to attempt to replicate one of my old CSS-styled HTML pages. I’ll start with my CSS Font Properties Test that I first published in HTML with embedded and inline CSS in February 1998. Here goes:
Daniel Greene’s CSS Font Properties Test
A Demonstration of CSS Font Properties
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Using the Shorthand font Property
Fonts with Descriptions
I recently reviewed all the fonts on my computer that had embedded descriptions, and I typeset the descriptions in their respective typefaces. The result is a demonstration of the typefaces and their history, features, and uses. To view these font descriptions in their proper typefaces you must have the fonts installed and enabled on your computer. To see the ligatures you will have to use a browser that supports them (Firefox 3.5 and later does). For the truest view, see Fonts with Descriptions (PDF). Below is the document in HTML format.
“Andale Monospaced is a highly legible monospaced font.” Regular only.
Arial: “Monotype Drawing Office 1982. A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.” Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic. Contains common ligatures that are not apparent in the phrase “File systems for affluent field offices.”
Arial Black: “…display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.” Regular only.
