DIE, DIE...

...IE6! For you have long been the bain of my life.

I wish that I could turn my back on IE6, as most web dev's do. I'm pleased there's lots of chatter at the minute about stopping support for it.

I like this a lot The Ultimate way to stop supporting IE6 and clearly web professionals are pretty much in agreement.

But sadly for me, and a lot of transactional sites, we simply cannot afford to be turning away customers, and yes, I do appreciate some people have computers so old that they can't upgrade. It's easy to say they SHOULD, but people have different priorities and means in life.

I checked our logs today and a massive 46% of our traffic is IE6 - although people do suggest that a lot of bots use the IE6 agent, so I need to have a look at that, because 46% is depressingly high.

I long for the day I can stop hacking my lovely designs about. I'm off to dance around a burning big blue e.

Typeface the facts

Typography is something not a lot of Web Developers gave much of a hoot about a few years ago. How things have changed, and these days a web monkey worth his salt needs to know his points from his serifs and kern with the best of them.

Heres my collection of typography resources...

A Guide to Web Typography
The wonderful webtypography.net is a superb guide to creating beautiful text. A wealth of information drawing on principles from The Elements of Typographic Style - the design industry standard by Robert Bringhurst. This site covers ground from the basics to the advanced levels of web typography. An essential for the serious web designer.

Typographica
The greatest Typography blog out there. Plenty that won't be directly applicable to your day to day work - but hugely inspiring creatively, fascinating and wonderfully written by people with a clear passion. Well worth keeping an eye on.

80 Beautiful Typefaces - compiled by Smashing Magazine
80 of the lovliest typfaces ever made. Pretty much all of the typefaces you'll ever need.

Thinking with type
A whistle stop tour around the finer points of working with type. Really nicely designed site, I got a lot from this one.

The Adobe Type Primer
In depth look at the issues surrounding text and typefaces from the daddies of documents. In PDF form, naturally.