It’s just a Saturday night
Sunday, March 26th, 2006Bay City Rollers lyrics have never hit so close to home. This is the post where I give my readers a glimpse of my debauched Saturday nights.
While other twenty-somethings are out popping their collars and enjoying drinks of booze, I sit at home frustrated by how poorly Windows renders fonts compared to Mac OS X. Furthermore, the lack of CSS2 support for text-shadow in any browser but Safari is frustrating because text-shadow looks pretty damn good. E.g.:
Internet Explorer 6
Safari
I won’t even get into how backward the computing experience is for everyone who doesn’t have the Optima font family installed.
I’m gonna catch hell for this post. On the plus side, I downloaded some new music today after a nice conversation with an Iowa City ex-pat at the bar last night. Talking with him rekindled somewhat romanticized memories of times when I was far more aware of new music than I am now. As a result of that conversation, Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm Remixed is kicking my ass all over this sleepy township.
March 26th, 2006 at 1:36 am
First, I hate fonts. I hate that there are about 6 you can use on the web with any sort of consistency. Second, you need to make your RSS feed the full test of a post. I am tired of getting the first 25 words of your post instead of the whole thing, so fix that.
March 26th, 2006 at 8:33 am
I get two pageviews if I leave it at 25, though!
March 26th, 2006 at 9:23 am
You totally have to stick to Verdana, Georgia, Arial, Times or Geneva with browser compatability issues. Try your page in IE 5.2 for Mac, now that’s a treat!
March 26th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Kudos on the RSS change
March 26th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
holy shit, i just tried zapf dingbats with text-shadow and it is fucking ( . Y . )s
March 26th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I think you should present those findings at CHI next month.
March 28th, 2006 at 9:48 am
I want to know why comic sans isn’t a web safe font.