The WhatFont tool is a great way to identify what web fonts are being used right on a page. When the bookmarklet is active, just click on any text to discover its full font stack!
Go to chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html to install the bookmarklet (Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9) or get the extension for Chrome.
GitHub has released GitHub for Mac, a desktop application that integrates with git and GitHub. Git is a very powerful version control system, but it can be very difficult to learn how to use on the command line. GitHub for Mac looks like a great tool that will allow you to clone, commit, and review git repositories, and interface with GitHub very smoothly.
If you have GitHub for Mac installed, you can click on the new “Clone in Mac” button on the GitHub page, and GitHub for Mac will quickly and easily clone the code to your computer.
I’ve had the chance to play around with it, and it seems like it does what GitHub does best, make it easier to use Git. I only noticed a few little hiccups, for instance it wouldn’t show me the diffs in the history for several files, claiming they are binary file when they are not. I am confident these sorts of things will be ironed out, and GitHub for Mac will become the easiest way to work with Git on the Mac.
Google has used their insanely smart engineers to create an image compression algorithm that’s just as good as JPEG but 39.8% smaller. It’s called WebP and it’s pronounced “weppy”. You can create WebP images in Acorn, Pixelmator, ImageMagick, Leptonica and XnConvert. If you use Photoshop, you can also install the WebP plugin.
Here’s a gallery comparing WebP to JPEG.
The problem is it’s currently only supported by Chrome and Opera, but if all of us in the web community make enough noise, we might succeed in getting it to be adopted by all major browsers. Please voice your support of WebP by …
If we all voice our support of this awesome new image format, the web might just speed up by about 38.9% :)
If you can’t see the image above, then your browser doesn’t support WebP. Come on and help us get this adopted by all browsers!
Google has used their insanely smart engineers to create an image compression algorithm that’s just as good as JPEG but 39.8% smaller. It’s called WebP and it’s pronounced “weppy”. You can create WebP images in Acorn, Pixelmator, ImageMagick, Leptonica and XnConvert. If you use Photoshop, you can also install the WebP plugin.
Here’s a gallery comparing WebP to JPEG.
The problem is it’s currently only supported by Chrome and Opera, but if all of us in the web community make enough noise, we might succeed in getting it to be adopted by all major browsers. Please voice your support of WebP by …
If we all voice our support of this awesome new image format, the web might just speed up by about 38.9% :)
If you can’t see the image above, then your browser doesn’t support WebP. Come on and help us get this adopted by all browsers!
Revealed in a comment by DHH on this blog post, 37signals is definitely going to open-source their new framework for single-page JavaScript apps. Very excited to see how this develops. Here’s DHH’s comment …
Hold on for our new Cinco framework. It’s basically Rails for single-page JS apps. We just used it to introduce Basecamp Mobile. A bunch of the supporting frameworks have already been released. The template language eco and the compiler stitch. We’ll be releasing the rest of the pieces in due time.
In our interview with Ryan Singer of 37signals, he mentioned something that is insanely exciting, and I’d like to draw more attention to it. It was hidden deep in the interview, so not many people discovered it. Here’s the deal …
There is nothing like Rails for mobile web app development, so 37signals are creating a web app MVC framework specifically designed for mobile phone web apps. The code will be comprised of local JavaScript, with the network just being used for data. The apps will work offline, when live data transfer isn’t required.
It’s built in CoffeeScript and Eco, a new templating language created by 37signals.
Essentially, what they’re creating is a streamlined and elegant new development process for HTML5 phone apps, that’s a mirror image of the 37signals web development process.
Singer said they will open-source it if it works out. Here’s the snippet in the interview where he discusses it:
