Tech Notes, Code Tips, And Musings By Chris Carvey, NYC UI/UX Director
I’ve primarily used “Arial” and “Verdana” as my html text fonts. Recently, I’ve been re-visiting that as a rule. There’s been a number of Windows and Mac OS updates in the “wild” for a while now, so perhaps my options have expanded and I thought it’s a good a time as any to freshen up my work…
I take a look at some cross-platform options, font replacement techniques, font embedding and what future standards might offer an intrepid developer down the road…
Recently I ran into a weird issue in Wordpress as I was remixing an older theme for a friend’s blog. Like most people, I operate under the assumption that Wordpress’ visual editor will work as the name sounds. But sometimes you can run into instances where the visual formatting of the entry/post you see in the control panel, does not match up with the content’s appearance on the blog. Glitches can show up when you hit the publish button, in this case- disappearing line breaks are the culprit. The source of the problem is likely a combination of at least two things…
