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Typekit

Spannende Ankündigung im Typekit Blog:

We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.

As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.

Ich bin gespannt und habe einen neuen Feed im Reader.

Google Maps API v3

In der Ankündigung der Google Maps API v3 finden sich mindestes zwei schöne Dinge:

• The primary motivation behind this new version was speed, especially for rendering maps on mobile browsers
• No keys required. You can now copy ‘n paste code easily or embed in RSS readers, for example, without getting key errors.

WordPress: Multilingual Content

Mal wieder eine Multilangual Lösung für WordPress: WPML.

We’ve taken the most powerful and popular features from Drupal and decided to implement as WordPress plugins. These features allow anyone to build a full website with WordPress, without hacking it and without reinventing the wheel time after time.

Klingt gut und die Roadmap verspricht einige nützliche Weiterentwicklungen.

Usability testing

userfly.com sieht nach einem interessanten Usability testing Tool aus.

Man installiert ein JavaScript und kann sich dann ansehen was User auf der Seite gemacht haben. Sehr beeindruckend. 10 Sessions pro Monat sind frei wer mehr braucht kann den Account upgraden. Ich habe das gerade mal auf einer Seite installiert und bin gespannt ob ich daraus Schlüsse zur Verbesserung der Seite ziehen kann.

Fazit: Testen!

Vic Gundotra über HTML5

Tim O’Reilly zieht aus der Keynote von Vic Gundotra auf der Google I/O Konferenz den Schluß: Google is betting big on HTML 5.

While the entire HTML 5 standard is years or more from adoption, there are many powerful features available in browsers today. In fact, five key next-generation features are already available in the latest (sometimes experimental) browser builds from Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome. (Microsoft has announced that it will support HTML 5, and as Vic noted, “We eagerly await evidence of that.”)