jaythomas

I haven't got a machine with IE9 on it so I couldn't test it. a link to the remote?

I was testing locally (MAMP) on Chrome and live on IE. I thought IE8 was pretty much unused nowadays but my girlfriends office (about 500 people) use IE8 - shocking!

I have indeed. It was the second thing I tried. The third attempt was Paul Irish's so called 'Bullet Proof' way which didn't work, so not 100% bullet proof after all! Chris Coiyer's way (posted above by Mantis) doesn't work either and these two guys are CSS guru's so I must be doing something really wrong! I've tested it in IE8 on two different machines and both have the same issue. Neither system have the fonts installed. It's becoming aggravating at best! I tested Chrome/FF/Safari on both machines and the fonts display perfectly. WTF!!!!????? (can you hear the desperation in that 'WTF'??? haha)

Hello, I'm have the most difficulties in embedding custom fonts in IE8+ on my site. I've used many forms of the @font-face and none of them work. None! Here is what I've tried: @font-face { font-family: 'Deft'; src: url('deftone.eot?') format('eot'), url('deftone.woff') format('woff'), url('deftone.ttf') format('truetype'); } also: @font-face { font-family: 'Deft'; src: url('fonts/Deft/deftone.eot'); src: url('fonts/Deft/deftone.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('fonts/Deft/deftone.woff') format('woff'), url('fonts/Deft/deftone.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/Deft/deftone.svg#DeftoneStylusRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } also the above but without the font styling. I've tried changing the location of the fonts so they're at the same root level as my css file. *thumping head* Both variations above work in every browser but IE8/6 (the only 2 versions I can actually test it on). I know V6 doesn't really matter, I just have a machine with one on it. I'm more concerned with IE8+. Can anyone shed any light as a sure fire way to embed fonts for total cross browser compatibility? Cheers Jay

I know the difference in how PHP and Javascript operate in terms of server-side/client-side. I just wondered if knowing another programming language helps - much like being bilingual I guess. I'll check out the book reference. Many thanks Jay

Will do! Does it help to have a previous basic understanding of PHP? (Can you tell I'm scared? haha) I've put off learning JS for years until I gave up web development. Since reuniting the fire with it all I figured after I'm back in the speed of front end code with HTML5/CSS3 I'd learn JS/JQ next. I don't suppose you have any book recommendations for a complete JS newb, do you? $regards = Jay

Thanks for the references everyone much appreciated! My first task is to help someone build a wordpress based site *eek*

Cool, thanks for the advice guys Jay

I apologise if this is the *dumbest* question ever, but does one need to know Javascript before learning JQuery? Or does it merely assist? Can One learn JQuery without knowing any Javascript? Cheers Jay

Thanks 4li4s, Thanks for the warm welcome! Love the Ren profile pic Used to love that cartoon... Will look into his second book, thanks for the reference. Jay P.S. I just threw all of my canvas out! ha!

Hey, Just wondered if anyone could recommend a good book (or even web TuTs) that can: 1) act as a good refresher for CSS 2) get me to grips with HTML5 and CSS3 I'm currently reading 'Responsive Web Design with HTML5 & CSS3' by Ben Frain, however it's not exhaustive. Cheers Jay

Hi WDF'ers, How are you all? So, from being given a task by a friend to help her design her new website I've found myself back in code land! I used to develop web sites around 8 or so years ago (give or take a few years) using XHTML/CSS and some PHP/MySQL. I know a lot has probably changed (HTML5/CSS3) and thought I would join a friendly community to help me ease back into it. I'm currently reading 'Responsive Web Design with HTML5 & CSS3' by Ben Frain and will be doing the practise site on this link: http://javascriptissexy.com/learn-html5-css3-and-responsive-web-site-design-in-one-go/ I will need to do a refresher on CSS - My HTML is still pretty OK since I hand coded everything the syntax & code was pretty much hardwired into my brain. Anyway, just a bit of background info on me. Hope to chat with some kind coder folk soon Cheers Jay