For Chrome users goblindegook’s Allvetica replaces Arial and optionally Comic Sans with Helvetica.

I was concerned that changing the font would mess up designs, but then I remembered that they were using comic sans, so it wasn’t a real concern.

However, it will slow down all web pages, as it iterates all stylesheet rules. If you notice your browser going slow this is probably why. Caveat Emptor.

So with that, I present Comic Sans Be Gone.

The latest information will be on the product page, and I’ve made an update manifest for it.

Even the blog acknowleges that there are problems, noting that it doesn’t integrate with the system keychain, but that these are “minor issues”.

I disagree.

Since Firefox doesn’t use the keychain passwords in Firefox are not subject to my keychain policy. I don’t know if the passwords are secure when I lock my machine, I can’t delete them using the administration tools, and they can’t be shared with other apps if I allow. This is a major issue, especially on a mobile device.

The important thing is the user would never notice that.

Firefox also doesn’t obey the system proxy settings. Granted, that’s useful for me, but imagine a corporate situation where there’s a company proxy. Start Firefox and it’ll ignore all system settings.

Then there’s the preferences dialog, which just throws the entire HIG out of the window.

While all this may be acceptable to many user, especially “power users”, this is not the experience Apple wants for the devices.

Games, of course, are a special case where the UI is almost entirely custom, but if developers get too “creative” it’s detrimental for all.

Windows 7, while in my opinion more refined than Windows XP, still feels like Windows. The development tools have more features than Xcode, but fewer than Eclipse, and the profiling tools just aren’t Shark.

However, I think it’s a good move. The people have been great so far, and I now believe I can do something that will actually affect people’s lives.

I’ve just set up Movable Type 4.3 to use fastcgi under lighttpd. I use lighttpd because it’s (normally) easier than apache, and my VPS doesn’t have any swap - apache is heavyweight in the RAM department. However, I do have RAM to spare, so caching the perl seems smart, especially with CPU that’s probably overcommitted.

It turns out you need MT-Dispatch to get it running. I’m using Ubuntu Jaunty, so it’s a fairly recent lighttpd.

You’ll also want to modify the spawn-fcgi Ubuntu init script to spawn fcgi. I removed the PHP references and stopped it starting/stopping lighttpd with the fcgi.

So now I have fastcgi, it makes the admin interface faster :)

But today TypeKit is out of testing, ready for general consumption! This site is using typekit right now, you can see the fonts in any modern browser.

I've moved from SVN to Git, so all my published source will now be in git. I'm hoping to publish some projects I've been working on, but that depends on time.

I will eventually get a contact form running, but for now my email is my-domain@my-domain.com, replacing my-domain with this one.