briangonzalez/fontprep
The missing font generator for Mac OS X.
Very handy for subsetting fonts for the web. It doesn’t (yet) export WOFF2 unfortunately.
Link archive: December 8th, 2015
The web will always be a moving target : Eclectic Dreams
Caution:
It would be convenient to think that because we live in a world where people’s browsers are regularly updating, that we live in a world where the web is in a reliable state.
Reminder:
The web is a continually moving target. It probably changed in the time it took me to write this. If you work with web stuff you need to embrace this fact. It will be the only constant in your career.
Do not panic:
On the web progressive enhancement is and will always be, the methodology of choice. It makes your site robust to the shifting sands of the web front end.
Cutting the Mustard Revisited — sixtwothree.org
Jason revisits some cutting-the-mustard techniques, as started by the BBC and refined by Jake. This kind of feature-testing is indispensable for progressive enhancement.
Personally though, I’m still uncomfortable with the assumptions baked into equating particular features with particular browsers …maybe I’ve known PPK too long.
I much prefer to cut the mustard on a case-by-case basis by feature testing the actual APIs I’m about to use in a script. I realise that might be harder to scale, and it’s more verbose, but it’s the only way to be absolutely sure.
The “Blur Up” Technique for Loading Background Images | CSS-Tricks
Quite a few moving parts in this technique from Emil, but it’s very clever.