Brazil 2014 World Cup Street Paintings

Featured on Google this week is a brilliant Google Maps interactive view of some painted streets and houses in Brazil celebrating the World Cup starting tomorrow.

Check them all out here:

https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/brazils-painted-streets

Browser Sizes

Just found this pretty neat feature from Google Labs - a web 'mask' showing usage percentages for browser window sizes.

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Pretty useful tool for us website designers! I'd say it looks like optimising your website design for c. 1000x550px resolution is a happy medium (at the moment) of usability over design possibilities...  Although some would say you should make your site available to absolutely everyone!

There's also useful raw chronological browser stats including size, operating system, browser, from W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

@font-face

Yay the @font-face css declaration is here!
Read more about it at the

• Web Font Awards - http://www.webfontawards.com/about
• A List Apart - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten
• CSS3.info - http://www.css3.info/font-face-fonts-the-way-you-want-them/

I've looked into using custom fonts before, mainly for SEO and page-loading-time reasons; there were a few very ugly solutions out there, including one that generated a Flash swf showing the desired text and embedding the requested font - UGH!!
So can't wait to implement this on client sites and our own upgraded v.3 website in the making.

HTML5

Wow just found this site for Google's Web project HTML5...
Thus concludes Google's takeover of the interweb...

http://www.html5rocks.com/