Thanks to Steven and the team at DuPont for this lovely array of flowers. Delivered to the design room this morning as Issue 5 of "The Ultimate Finish" magazine (our second production of the publication) made it out to the printers. A large arduous task (though challenging and enjoyable of course), particularly with some last moment contributor changes, we managed to wrap the project up smoothly.

Looks like is time to throw out a few things (I wont even mention Internet Explorer 6, which is beyond a joke) - hack techniques that have gotten us through some dark lack-of-web-standards years.

As the web approaches a more standardised land of happiness, CSS3 is becoming more and more a reality.

One piece of good news we've begun using ourselves is the @font-face definition. Sure, theres a bit of an IE7/8 hack... but it works! Infact it works nicely, and barely counts as a hack since it follows your standard CSS rules; more or less.

Check out the Siteflex website to see @font-face in action. We're very pleased with the results. Goodbye old techniques; hello new, improved ones! The image below shows off a bit of before/after action - loving the new font!

Here is another article on font-face over at miltonbayer.com

ps. As a major bonus font-face is iPhone/iPad friendly too!