Monday, October 26th, 2009
Be a CSS Ninja with your Font Dragr
Category: Firefox, Showcase
, Typography
Font dragr is an experimental web app that uses HTML5 & CSS3 to create a useful standalone web based application for testing custom fonts, once you visit it for the first time you don’t need to be online to use it after the initial visit. It allows you, in Firefox 3.6+, to drag and drop font files from your file system into the drop area. The browser will then create a data URL encoded copy to use in the page and render the content in the dropped font.
Used in the app:
- HTML5
- Offline access applicationCache
- Drag and drop API
- File API
- contenteditable attribute set to true so the text can be edited.
- CSS3
- Custom fonts with @font-face
- Gradients
- Rounded corners using border-radius
- Drop shadows with text-shadow & box-shadow
- Attribute and pseudo selectors
- Multiple border colours
- Box model adjust using box-sizing
See it in action:
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Editors, when will you fix the content fitting the article width?
MartijnHoutman, they’ve never even acknowledged it. They rarely even respond to comments directed at them, and I suspect they probably just don’t read them. My suggestion is to use a custom stylesheet for ajaxian.com. This is the one I use, which preserves the design appearance but extends the main column to the right of the full content area:
#sidebar {display: none;
}
#maincontent {
width: 700px;
padding-left: 27px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
#maincontent #commentlist dd {
margin-bottom: -5px;
padding-bottom: 1.3em;
}
.igBar {
width: 644px;
}
.syntax_hilite {
width: 633px;
}
#commentscontainer, p.commentbar {
background-image: none !important;
}
Theres one more feature which I only added a few days ago. The main content area will save any edits you do using localStorage.
eyelidlessness, I like your hacks.
I created a similar project at http://www.bruechner.de/md5file/js/ a local JavaScript MD5 check tool.