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Comment on Mystery Solved: Parinj by ajg

ajg — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:45:09 +0000

Thanks for the info on adjar. Having just returned from a market where I saw a large pile of it, I was about to make a second attempt to find out about it, so you saved me a lot of effort. I can now add it to my wheat page, at http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/gr_wheat.html

Living, as I do, across the street from West Yerevan (Glendale, CA) I find this grain in good supply at the local markets.

Comment on Failover patch for mod_vhost_alias by Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:13:49 +0000

@Rytis:

I’m glad it helped you!

Comment on Failover patch for mod_vhost_alias by Rytis Lukoševičius

Rytis Lukoševičius — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:04:53 +0000

Thank you a lot for two things:
1. I was unable to find a clear directions how to compile the module
2. for the patch itself it really saved my day for now.

Have a nice day.

Comment on Complaining Wins The Day by madpimp

madpimp — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:43:19 +0000

You should submit this to emailsfromcrazypeople.com =]

Comment on A Rant About Font Embedding by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:04:33 +0000

I've been following TypeKit, and it looks like it will be an interesting solution. My only concerns are that I must either use their jQuery-based API (I won't comment on jQuery here, but suffice it to say I don't consider this a solution) or I must allow them to host the CSS for my fonts. That is all well and good — as long as I remain happy with the level of service they provide. They also seem to be keen on sticking vast amounts of data encoded into data: scheme URIs, directly into the CSS code. I'm not sure whether I like that or not. I'm leaning towards not. (here is an example of a data: URI. Imagine if instead of a 165 byte PNG image, it were a 200KB font file.) Also, what's the cost? Will it be a monthly fee? Will I have to re-purchase fonts I already own through TypeKit? Will it be both? It remains to be seen whether TypeKit will be a cost-effective solution — I doubt embedded fonts are considered important enough by most people to justify any significant expenditure, and they might have trouble finding a price point that supports them.

Comment on A Rant About Font Embedding by bunch

bunch — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:19:17 +0000

One hopes that Typekit (http://blog.typekit.com/) arriving around the same time as adoption of FF3.5 and @font-face might help to steer the whole thing in a positive, font designers getting compensated fairly direction.

Comment on Musings About Healthcare in the U.S. by madpimp

madpimp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:17:14 +0000

I actually think that the new health care option seems good, too. Up until now there just hasn’t been any real competition in the insurance market.

On a side note, my husband is in medical school and we’ve been hearing a lot of rumors that the government is going to start offering to pay off loans (so I guess something like a retroactive scholarship?) to doctors who decide to go into preventative medicine and public health (since it pays comparatively little). I think that would be a really huge step, considering so many of the health problems today are caused by obesity and poor living habits.

Comment on Client Side Hyphenation Library by WDS Day One: Recap-o-rama! at Mad Web Skills - Web design in Melbourne and Shepparton

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:08:06 +0000

[...] a bad idea, unless you’re awesome like Cameron Moll. A few resources for more information: Duckwizard.com’s client-side hyphenation library, and SmartyPants by John Gruber for smart punctuation on the [...]

Comment on Client Side Hyphenation Library by Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:20:36 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Nikos. The hyphenation dictionary was actually derived from OpenOffice.org’s hyphenation dictionary and encoded into a javascript object. The hyphenation algorithm is derived from TeX’s original algorithm developed by Frank Liang.

I have actually been meaning to update the hyphenation script as it could use some optimization (There is a noticable delay when hyphenating a page, which is kind of unacceptable). I’ve also done a complete re-imagining of the code editor which I’ve yet to post.

Comment on Client Side Hyphenation Library by Nikos

Nikos — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:21:45 +0000

I’ve just discovered your site, and I think that your hyphenation and your source code editor are two wonderfull ideas. about:edit is fine your are right, but it is not open source ! Nobody can not enhance it, adapt it, intergate it, … very bad.

Anyway, concerning the hyphenation script, how have you build the hyphenation database ? I would be happy to contribute to an other set of rules for my language.