Contao, formerly known as Typolight, comes with a lot of extensions and plugins available through its Extension Repository. In there is a little extension called “hyphenation”, providing support for frontend integration of Google-hosted JavaScript-based hyphenator script. Its integrating well in Contao implying little change to existing system UI. But as of current release the plugin includes a bug heavily limiting its capabilities. Continue reading »
Jun 17
Webfonts in Safari
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On trying out support for webfonts in all contemporary browsers using CSS3 @font-face container I had some trouble on support by Safari 4 on Windows. This was very astonishing to me since Safari is promoted as the browser initially supporting TrueType and OpenType fonts this way.
After some tests I found Safari (at least on Windows computers) failing to properly derive and support small caps font variant. Webfonts aren’t used in Safari unless you remove rule on using font-variant small-caps whenever you select the font family added to your browser’s font database.
