![]() It is this reality check that keeps me from getting excited about W3C meetings, Internet Explorer extensions, or anything else that doesn’t apply all browsers in the here and now… or at least the right around the corner.Ĭompatibility was also what pushed sIFR over the top in terms of popularity, working in over 90% of all systems and falling back gracefully in most others. If your shiny new method only works in 10% of web browsers, it’s nothing more than a proof-of-concept. CompatibilityĬompatibility is the most important aspect of any new web technology. In evaluating its promise, it’s important to examine the following characteristics, in order of importance: compatibility, functionality, legality, ease of use, and hackiness. Unlike sIFR, Cufon, and several other stopgaps before it, Typekit does not attempt to hack around the problem, but to solve it in a permanent way, which is exciting.Īs a co-inventor of sIFR, I’ve been getting a lot of emails this week asking what I think of this new effort. Created by Jeff Veen and the smart folks at Small Batch, Typekit aims to solve the problem of custom typography on the web once and for all. Last week brought word of a promising new type solution for the web called Typekit.
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