‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.
Has the Typekit bubble burst? A cute CMS is launched. And Cameron courts controversy.
The week began with further discussions surrounding Typekit, and a change in tone could be detected, with several concerns being voiced, among them:
Whilst, like others, I was initially excited on the day of the announcement, the lack of details to have been released since then is frustrating. Jeffrey Veen’s heart is undoubtedly in the right place here, and the final outcome is still likely to be positive, but it feels as though a rocky road will have to be trodden on the way.
On Monday 1st, Drew McLellan and Rachel Andrew launched Perch, a “really little content management system” ideal for those sites over which clients require a simple level of control. The launch received a lot of support from bloggers and tweeters, notably Dan Cederholm who also praised perch’s simple but attractive site.
The CMS itself is an easy-to-install set of PHP scripts which store data using MySQL and provide a clean and simple interface for content updates. Most exciting of all is the strong separation between your site and the CMS itself: Perch really doesn’t impose itself like many others.
Finally, on Thursday, Cameron Moll described his personal practise of using HTML4 doctypes and pixel-based font-sizing. A lively comment thread raised some counterarguments, including my own opinion that pixel-based font-sizes are absolutely inferior for reasons of accessibility.
I think this will always be the case, whatever advances are made in browser zoom, due to the ‘fuzzy’ nature of the web and the very difference between absolute and relative font-sizes. This is a good thing, in my opinion. And, yes, I realise that — strictly speaking — pixel units are relative, but no-one really thinks of them that way. Everything’s relative, depending on how you look at it.
‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.