Webfonts are the new buzz since Firefox 3.5 reintroduced downloadable fonts, but if a browser does not have the font or if it cannot download a font, what happens with the rendering of the page? Many characters simply display even if they are not in the selected font, how come? This article dives into the font selection and glyph substitution process of the common browsers and explains what goes on under the surface — read article

Installing Firefox 3.5 alongside an older version, like Firefox 3.0 or 2.0 is really not that hard. This post puts the necessary steps in a simple and quick overview for easy reference — read article

The CSS font family monospace renders to small in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, about 75% of the original size. This bug introduces a number of strange behaviors, as font-family:monospace,monospace renders differently then just monospace. Weird? Indeed, and it’s there since 2002… — read article

XPI (zippy), aka XPInstall files are basically nothing more then zip files. This article shows you how to unzip them by renaming — read article

CDATA sections in XML are often misunderstood. Programmers get the wrong advice, or they hear that strings should go in CDATA sections because they contain Unicode or non-ASCII characters. All nonsense, CDATA is only a convenience in writing and everything written in CDATA can be written without CDATA — read article

Online regular expression testers, information, programs and tools can help a great deal in finding the right regex for a given task. Unfortunately it can be daunting to find the right one. How do you know whether a free online regexp tool is javascript, or what server side language or flavor was used? Perl-style regexes, or old-school sed/awk? This article summarizes all known online regex tools and their abilities and is updated regularly — read article

(en|nl) bilingual / tweetalige post
(en) A country-wide ADSL disruption of service since 12:58 September 6, 2009, took many people in The Netherlands offline. After about 24 hours, all seems good again.
(nl) Een landelijke storing van KPN / XS4ALL sinds 12:58 uur op 6 september 2009. XS4All geeft nauwelijks en erg laat informatie. Via Twitter en nieuwsberichten komen we langzaam achter de feiten. Na 24 uur is het sein brand meester gegeven — read article