Off topic, but I love Jason Santa Maria's blog. Every post is not only interesting in its content, but is a design exercise in its own! It's a pleasure to browse the site even if you don't read the posts.
Here's a video of a presentation he did for The Dot Dot Dot lecture series. It's pretty interesting, and he goes on to kind of explain his reasoning for designing his site the way he did:
Today is my day for touching raw nerves ... Since the other comment is giving me unmerited points, go ahead, take some away here if it makes you feel better.
But, you know, it's a bit sad that you refuse taking a creative approach to the issue: what is 'good design' if you take away the control available in print - exact page size/layout and precise font choice.
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May one hope to see the day when they let go of the "here's a bit of text as an image because you really must see it in this here font" thing ?
Ah, well, it doesn't hurt to ask. Actually, I'm afraid of the upcoming contortions around this.
But, you know, it's a bit sad that you refuse taking a creative approach to the issue: what is 'good design' if you take away the control available in print - exact page size/layout and precise font choice.
It's not like the issue is going away. Heroic measures like sIFR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replacemen... ) are too contorted. And Mark Pilgrim already wrote on the wall about downloadable fonts (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundri... ).
It's a fluid. The tighter you grab, the less you hold. Let go.