Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • A Google blunder?

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    Google today released (at least to public preview) a web application environment generically called Google App Engine. One of the featured demo applications Huddle Chat is receiving a lot of criticism (John Gruber, Kevin Heisler) for its striking “resemblance” to 37 Signals’ Campfire web application. Resemblance being a polite way of saying copying. When the design…

  • Apple might want to rewrite that…

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    First see here: www.apple.com/safari. Click on the “Graphics and Fonts” link on the left. Then read the 3rd paragraph. With CSS3 web fonts in Safari 3.1, web designers can go beyond web-safe fonts and use any font they want to create stunning new websites using standards-based technology. Safari automatically recognizes websites that use custom fonts and…

  • 2.5

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    Ben
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    I’m now running WordPress 2.5. The admin UI improvements are definitely an improvement. It’s much nicer to use. I’ve also fixed my sidebar to be actually “widget” aware. Frankly it’s amazing to me that I even have time to accomplish this…