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Re: Google Font Effects

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post #34

Pairs nicely with http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

.. and spin those logos like a pro with swift3D! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_3D I just learned they went out of business in 2009 :-( They will forever be spinning in my heart.

Oh man, the memories are coming back... The real pros hand-traced their 3D logo animations! :)

Re: Google Font Effects

#82
post #76
post #6

Web people, please don't start to use effects that are only supported by one single rendering engine (okay, Blink+Webkit).

Many of these work in most browsers. Google's fonts API only serves CSS and font files specific to the browser. Open the following links in different browsers and watch it change: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rancho&effect=shadow-...

Only 5 of them work in Firefox.

Look at the list: "Support: Chrome, Safari".

Re: Google Font Effects

#83
Looks like Google discovered that they can keep tracking this way users on remaining websites that don't use google analytics. And this time if you start blocking these requests the web page will look bad.

Re: Google Font Effects

#84
post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK most people use Noscript for privacy/security reasons, there's no way it makes the web more usable considering how prevalent javascript is these days.

It certainly becomes less and less annoying after you use it for a few months. That way you only get annoyed by new sites. Used it for 6 months switched machines and didn't want to go through the learning curve again.

Can you copy over your settings file from old machine?

Re: Google Font Effects

#85

One bad thing about using computer in China is, anything Google-related either is painfully slow or deliberately blocked (by GFW). On some website, google-analytics.com become a major speed reducer (browser says something like "sending data to google-analytics.com"). Using fonts.googleapis.com have a similar effect. Chinese people would have to wait until some Chinese company make similar things available.

One good thing about using a computer in China is that this API is blocked, too, sparing your eyes from horrible damage.

Re: Google Font Effects

#86

nostalgia ... It amazes me to think that back then how we all collectively agreed that those spinning, scrolling, blinking geocities type designs were cool - and tried to imitate them. Now a decade later, collectively laugh at them. This seems common in fashion - but is it true for other art forms as well? How then some art survive the through time and are viewed as beautiful by number of generations that follow? I m…

Geocities is like the 70s architecture, or the neoclassicistic architecture.

Totally ugly by today’s standards, but loved back in the day.

Re: Google Font Effects

#87

nostalgia ... It amazes me to think that back then how we all collectively agreed that those spinning, scrolling, blinking geocities type designs were cool - and tried to imitate them. Now a decade later, collectively laugh at them. This seems common in fashion - but is it true for other art forms as well? How then some art survive the through time and are viewed as beautiful by number of generations that follow? I m…

The reason the early public WWW is so ridiculous is that it was an entirely new technology and thus we embraced its difference. The closest equivalent to a webpage was a physical printed page and the most obvious thing a webpage can do that printed pages can't is having animations.

It's also easy to forget that while some works of art have endured over thousands or tens of thousands of years, most art likely hasn't. The ancient art we have today is like a Best Of album -- it leaves out all the works that were instantly forgotten or just not good enough and creates the impression that everything was better back then.

Re: Google Font Effects

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post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It certainly becomes less and less annoying after you use it for a few months. That way you only get annoyed by new sites. Used it for 6 months switched machines and didn't want to go through the learning curve again.

Can you copy over your settings file from old machine?

I don't know the parent's particular circumstances, but NoScript has a whitelist import/export feature.

Re: Google Font Effects

#90
post #39

Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension. Extensions required to make the web usable: AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

Use umatrix instead. It's much more powerful than adblock and noscript.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

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