Vector graphics are great. They deserve more of a place on websites than they get — certainly compared to their rasterized cousins. Nowhere is this more true than with icon UI. I decided to dip my toes into two leading solutions to bringing vectors to webpages: icon fonts, and SVG.

I love Jekyll Bootstrap and GitHub as a blog platform — so much so that I’m sure I’ll write posts more often than once a year. Really. As a frontend developer and pixel-pusher, it might be the most pleasurable way to blog that I’ve tried yet. Not that I’ve tried much, but hear me out.

Just a quick one here, urging you to vote for the Regressive Enhancement, or Use HTML5 Today! panel for SXSWi 2011. Because I can find no better reason to go than to see a couple of friends of mine on stage. (Maybe the BBQ.) Also congrats to Mike Taylor, one of the speakers, for his brand spanking new gig at Opera!

rgba() is a supremely useful CSS value. But I noticed, while working on the footer of this site down below, that operating systems render typography using this value in interesting ways.