Wow. No, I mean wow. SIFR, an LGPLed combination of JavaScript, CSS and Flash, let’s you easily use any font for text on your pages, regardless of whether the user has the font. It leaves your pages fully accessible and searchable, and it drops and and removes very easily. Look at the example page to see the kind of coolness I’m talking about. (Link via Ian Landsman.)
Yesterday, I was working in Photoshop and got a simple image looking the way I wanted it to. I had eyedroppered the color from a different file. Whenever I tried to edit in Image Ready or save for the web, the image became distinctly lighter. It would seem that this interestingly formatted page has the reason: Save For Web Color Shift ImageReady. As of now, I’m still seeing the color change when I move from Photoshop to ImageReady, so the tips presented there have not yet borne fruit for me.
A major issue here for me is that I’m trying to synchronize the color in the image with an HTML color. Photoshop tells me the correct HTML color code, but ImageReady is producing a different color.
Ned Batchelder has a great software blog that I’ve been reading for a few months now. His wife, Susan Senator has a new book about dealing with autism coming out later in the year. Check them out!
Do you have a spiffy new AJAX page that you’re trying to troubleshoot under IE? Check out the Mouseover DOM Inspector for a way to analyze what objects are sitting on your page at that moment. (Via Ned Batchelder.)