Type-changing bug identified—not that it matters next to Christchurch
It’s quite pathetic to be blogging about something like this on the day of the Christchurch earthquake, but Jonathan Kew, who has kept on the font-changing bug in the Firefox 4 betas after I mentioned it to him, has created a patch that sorts the problem out. Apparently, it applies to old PS1 fonts: Firefox was rejecting the glyph index 31 in these fonts.
Jonathan is a real ally to the type community, and understands the industry’s needs very well. We’re lucky to have a guy like that involved in browser development. Here’s hoping for approval for the patch.
I’ll repeat parts of what we wrote on the Lucire site today: ‘New Zealand Red Cross is accepting donations …
‘Twitter updates can be found at hashtag #eqnz.
‘Google has a Person Finder for those who are looking for people or wish to report they are OK.’
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