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Finally Sinhala Unicode Support In Mac OS X

Published June 21st, 2008 in Web. 5 Comments

Yesterday while I was at work Anandawardhana buzzed me on Gtalk.

This is the the conversation we had;

12:04 PM Anandawardhana: http://web.nickshanks.com/typography/
මේක වැඩ කරනවද නැද්ද බලල තියෙනවද?
12:05 PM me: ah
try karanna one
Anandawardhana: if this works
it indeed is a BIG step forward
12:06 PM me: yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Anandawardhana: pls test it if you have a mac
i dont
me: yeh yeh i have a macbook now
Anandawardhana: great

12:07 PM me:

So today I got a chance to try this & this works fine. But as they have mentioned it’s still under development & still some characters not rendering properly. But end of the they we have a reasonable Sinhala Unicode support on Mac OS X.

This has developed by a Programmer & Web Developer, Nicholas Shanks who lives in United Kingdom.

This font is a Mac version of Malithi Web, a typeface by Pushpananda Ekanayaka.

Here is the link to get Sinhala Unicode for Mac OS X.

This this the screen shot of the Sinhala Bloggers Union website in Safari;

Click on the image to view the full screen version

This is the screen shot of Firefox 3 Sinhala;

Click on the image to view the full screen version

Graded Browser Support

Published June 16th, 2007 in Web. 0 Comments

I have found a good article in Yahoo! UI Library regarding Graded Browser Supports. This article includes some History & Rationale of Graded Browser Support. This article also describing the meaning of the term “Support” and What are Grades of Support including Identified vs. Unknown, Capable vs. Incapable, Modern vs. Antiquated, Common vs. Rare. And also this article describing about The Three Grades of Support and then with the brief about Quality Assurance (QA) Testing. It also displaying A-Grade Browser Support Chart at the top of the article.

This article is ending like this;

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the W3C, has said it best:

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Read the full article here »

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