Archived posts, December 2010

Use uppercase text judiciously

Text set in all uppercase letters may slow readers down and may cause some screen readers to spell words out letter by letter. Use good judgement when capitalising text.

Posted on December 13, 2010 in Usability, Accessibility

Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom

How to prevent your website from having unreadably small text when it is first loaded in Safari on iOS and how to prevent auto-scaling of text when you change orientation from portrait to landscape on your iPhone/iPod/iPad

Posted on December 21, 2010 in iOS, Usability, CSS

@font-face tip: define font-weight and font-style to keep your CSS simple

When using @font-face with typefaces that have multiple weights and styles it’s important to do it correctly, or your CSS will become unwieldy and browsers will have no fallback styles.

Posted on December 22, 2010 in CSS, Typography