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by oms1005 4902 days ago
I've been in the Myspace beta for a while, these were my initial impressions on it. I'm meaning to write a follow up to it. http://hasablog.tumblr.com/post/37090712393/the-new-myspace
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Heads up -- your blog is very difficult to read in Chrome for Windows, due to the custom @font-face. Nothing says "Built on a Mac" like jagged fonts in Windows...

More info:

"Using Web fonts in your design requires thorough testing on as many different browsers and platforms as possible, with a close look at various options for rendering text. If the screen display is of poor quality and lacks subpixel rendering, then opt for graceful degradation by serving system fonts to older browsers and OS. Conditional comments are the easiest way to exclude older browsers and operating systems from style sheets with Web fonts. Of course, JavaScript is a more elegant way to detect whether a client’s subpixel rendering is turned on."

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/02/the-font-face-rul...

Also useful:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-...

Thanks for the tips, I'm actually currently redesigning the whole thing so I'll make sure to keep this in mind. Much obliged.