3. Web Fonts: History
• Traditional, common web fonts
– Arial
– Helvetica
– Georgia
– Times New Roman
– Verdana
– Lucida Grande
4. Web Fonts: History
• What about other, nicer, fancier fonts?
– Font foundries and legal issues
– Workarounds
• Text/image replacement
• sIFR
• @font-face
• Web font services
12. HTML5: What’s new?
• APIs
– Build offline web apps (offline storage)
• https://www.minutes.io/
– Drag and drop
– Page visibility
– Many more that are over my head…
• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/nuts_and_
bolts
13. HTML5: What’s new?
• Semantics and Structure
<header> IE 8 and below do not like these new tags.
<footer>
Use ‘shim’ to force support:
<section> <!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/
<article> trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<aside>
<nav>
<audio>
<video>
14. HTML5: Resources
• caniuse.com
• html5please.com
• html5rocks.com
• html5boilerplate.com
• coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/html5/
• Dissect your favorite sites to see how
they’re using these techniques
– Firebug extension for Firefox
16. CSS3 (and HTML5) : Support
• Varies wildly between browsers html5please.com
• Can use ‘polyfills’ and ‘shims’ to force
HTML5 and CSS3 support or
fallbacks, but understand the drawbacks
– modernizr.com
– yepnopejs.com
– css3pie.com
– selectivizr.com
– github.com/scottjehl/Respond
17. Mobile
• Responsive Web Design
– Media Queries
• http://mediaqueri.es/
• jQuery Mobile
– http://jquerymobile.com/
• Recommended reading:
– Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
– Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
18. Follow the Leaders
• Google these Web Design Superstars.
Follow their blogs, Twitter feeds, etc.
– Luke Wroblewski
– Ethan Marcotte
– Dan Cedarholm
– Jeremy Keith
– Jeffrey Zeldman
– Elliot Jay Stocks
– Cameron Moll
– Jonathan Snook
