Hi Jukka,
> It seems that the currently most important issue with embedded fonts ("web
> fonts") is the varying quality in different browsing situations. As far as I
> have understood, Windows systems may not properly apply font smoothing to
> embedded fonts, or otherwise render them in suboptimal ways.
>
I think you may be referring to what that Typekit blog describes about IE 7 & 8
"Always use ClearType for HTML” that overrides the default OS font smoothing
setting." in their article
http://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/21/type-rendering-web-browsers/
Although I'm not 100% comfortable on the Museo-Sans paragraph choice, it is
their favorite and I made sure they saw IE lower browser renderings. Hopefully
over time we will see improvement for font-hinting for IE 7&8 issues, I do see
it being situational depending on the web font chosen.
> I still think the best approach here is to use an image - partly because
> none of the telephone symbols encoded as characters is really adequate in
> the 21st century. I think the issue of proper horizontal placement of an
> image on IE 6 is reasonably solvable, and even if it isn't, IE 6 has lost
> most of its significance, and anyone still browsing with it can't expect
> perfect layout.
I originally tried that, image method for IE6 a bust. Because the header is a
transparency (I used an alpha 24 png and RGBA backup for browsers that can use
it) I needed a alpha 24 png for the phone. IE6 would not render the png even
with unitpnxfix.js in use. This seemed to be only a problem for the navbar
area, I'm not sure of the conflict but assumed it might have to do with the WP
theme of ID plus Class on the li element.
Telephones: the disk image usage you see to "save" is my take, obviously we
don't use floppy disks as part of normal data storage but it is so commonly
used people seem to know what the implied usage is. "Retro" phones with the old
style you can find in a Pottery Barn and other "retro" style catalogs. May no
longer be the average phone but the marketing goal is for a hint of "retro" to
be approachable to the sector of the market not comfortable with computers, and
the 40+ crowd will recognize the phone.
I try to look at the usage stats of a site to see how far back with IE (one
website I maintain I have AOL browser users, yikes.) Demographics plays a large
part too. South and Central Americas seem to be at least 5 years behind with
computer usage and keep them longer before replacing.
> on line height. Setting a sufficient line-height for all <li> elements
> within the <ul> might help.
Thanks! The line-height seemed to be largely responsible, but the
vertical-align within "span" tests really well. Love your background on web
fonts info.
Nancy
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