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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/315487929/ [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Ralf Herrmann recently took a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what's been available in Safari 3 for a while. The results show some major advances, and some major problems.

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Boing Boing Gadgetshttp://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/firefox-3-vs-safari.html [Boing Boing Gadgets] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 typography showdown: Ralf Herrmann's typography blog has a great post up comparing the type handling of Safari 3, which doesn't support kerning or OpenType layout features, with Firefox 3, which does in theory. Unfortunately, it's still got a way to go: for example, ligatures are applied universally that should only appear under certain contextual conditions.

Digg / Apple / upcominghttp://digg.com/apple/Firefox_3_vs_Safari_3_typography_showdown [Digg / Apple / upcoming] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: typography showdown: Ralf Hermann recently took a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what’s been available in Safari 3 for a while.

whitesandsdigital.comhttp://whitesandsdigital.com/wordpress/2008/06/19/firefox-3-vs-safari-3-typography-showdown/ [whitesandsdigital.com] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: Typography Showdown: Taking a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what’s been available in Safari 3 for a while.

Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog[Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog] Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3: Maybe you could post a follow up with examplary websites that actually use OpenType fonts where we can see the new feature in action … I couldn’t just now find a site that uses OpenType fonts, until I checked out Joe’s fawny blog from the comment above with FF3, where the hyperlinks are set in Candara, which seem to have a fi-ligature (while the Cambria of normal text doesn’t).

JY Design - Blog: trends in art, design, interactive & marketinghttp://www.jydesign.com/blog/2008/06/kerning-and-opentype-features-in.html [JY Design - Blog: trends in art, design, interactive & marketing] Kerning and OpenType Features In Firefox 3: Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog offers some very useful comparisons between typography and layout features of Safari 3 and Firefox 3.

Apartment 5http://apt5.net/post/39142475 [Apartment 5] Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3.: Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3.: Comparing typography in Safari and Firefox.

fontfest.com[fontfest.com] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: typography showdown - tuaw.com: Ralf Herrmann recently took a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what's been available in Safari 3 for a while.

harrison & locusthttp://johnbenson.tumblr.com/post/39054900 [harrison & locust] mariodonini:Firefox 3 is not awesome. Especially on a Mac.”¦ In my ...: I haven’t tried Safari on a PC yet (or Opera at all). Anyway, you might be interested in reading this, Mario.

Typography Digest[Typography Digest] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: typography showdown - tuaw.com: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: typography showdowntuaw.com,?CA?- 2 hours agoRalf Herrmann recently took a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what's been available in Safari 3 for a while.

alayna´s favorites[alayna´s favorites] Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3 & Safari: Ralf Hermanns typography publishes on his great blog interesting article on kerning and OpenType features in new Firefox”¦ If you liked this article please give credit to the original author.

teddy-risationâ™http://www.teddy-o-ted.com/design/teddy-risation%E2%84%A2-zeta-released/ [teddy-risationâ™] teddY-risatioNâ™ Zeta Released!: However, I didn’t regret designing Epsilon although it took me just two more days to pull out a new one - Zeta has inherited the general typography from Epsilon, and some ideas I had in mind originally for Epsilon is now implemented in Zeta. I shall walk you through a few important features for this new theme!

Ally's Digital Media Bloghttp://tamtafe15.freeblogit.com/2008/06/03/b-of-digital-media-blogging-browsing-and-bandwidth/ [Ally's Digital Media Blog] B of Digital Media - Blogging Browsing and Bandwidth!: Some of the Web browsers currently available for personal computers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Flock and AOL Explorer. Web browsers are the most commonly used type of HTTP user agent.

Boing Boing Gadgetshttp://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/315512611/firefox-3-vs-safari.html [Boing Boing Gadgets] Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 typography showdown: Ralf Herrmann's typography blog has a great post up comparing the type handling of Safari 3, which doesn't support kerning or OpenType layout features, with Firefox 3, which does in theory. Unfortunately, it's still got a way to go: for .

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