Paul Irish

Paul Irish
Chrome Developer Advocate, Google

Paul Irish is a front-end developer who loves the web. He is on Google Chrome’s Developer Relations team as well as jQuery’s.

He develops the HTML5 Boilerplate, the HTML5/CSS3 feature detection library Modernizr, HTML5 Please, CSS3 Please, and other bits and bobs of open source code.

Sessions

1:00pm Thursday, 05/06/2010
Web Fonts: The Time Has Come
Design & User Experience
 Location: 2001
Moderated by:
Jeff Veen (Typekit)
Panelists:
Stephen Coles (FontShop/Typographica), Paul Irish (Google)
After 15 years of contenting ourselves with system fonts, type in images, or hacks with Flash, we can finally use real fonts on the web. With broad browser support for CSS @font-face, a new era of web typography is dawning. But that's only the beginning. New technical hurdles, new font formats, and new licensing restrictions need to be considered. Read more.
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