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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:11:42 GMT" ctSaves="6" flPreview="false" id="2011.08.22.1237" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1237" text="New header on Scripting News" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/22/newHeaderOnScriptingNews.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:56:52 GMT">
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:58:47 GMT" pgfnum="8918" text="I know a lot of people who read this blog read it in an aggregator, and of course that's very cool. We support &lt;a href=&quot;http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html&quot;&gt;RSS&lt;/a&gt; here, as I'm sure you know. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:59:18 GMT" pgfnum="8919" text="But if you do, you might want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/&quot;&gt;click this link&lt;/a&gt; and have a look at the home page, because there's a new header here. It's notable not just because it looks good, but it's text, not a graphic. :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:59:58 GMT" pgfnum="8920" text="I knew when I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/webfonts&quot;&gt;Google Web Fonts&lt;/a&gt; that I was going to use it, but it took a bit of experimentation and thinking to figure out how. It's always a good idea to let things settle-in a bit before moving. Your first intuition is not always so good. But after a while, you figure it out."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:51 GMT" pgfnum="8921" text="It's very simple, which is of course how these thing should be."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:01:02 GMT" pgfnum="8922" text="There's just a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/08/22/linkElement.gif&quot;&gt;link in the head section&lt;/a&gt; of the HTML, that gets the font from Google's website."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:01:36 GMT" pgfnum="8923" text="And then a style that defines it. After that, it's just a &amp;lt;p&gt; in divHeaderText, which I've given a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/08/22/p.gif&quot;&gt;style&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:06:41 GMT" pgfnum="8924" text="As I got this working, I did it in a more general way in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.scripting.com/august2011/82111ByDw/webFontsInHeaderOnScriptingcom&quot;&gt;worldoutline software&lt;/a&gt;, so you can use text headers on any page, using whatever font and size you like. (I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Fontdiner+Swanky&quot;&gt;Fontdiner Swanky&lt;/a&gt; both here and there because I like it so much. It's friendly and wacky yet very readable. A nice informal headline font, imho.)"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:07:24 GMT" pgfnum="8925" text="So this is nice, but it's still just a beginning. A foot in the door. I want to make this site a showcase for the tasteful use of fonts, because I love text, but I love it even more when it looks beautiful. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:08:13 GMT" pgfnum="8926" text="And since I often gripe about Google here, let me say thanks for putting some cool technology out there. Keep up the good work!"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:09:28 GMT" pgfnum="8927" text="PS: Since all this is certain to change at some time in the future, I took a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/6066005386/in/photostream&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt; so future readers can know what I'm talking about."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:56:25 GMT" pgfnum="8929" text="PPS: I used fonts in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.scripting.com/august2011/81911ByDw/blorkCounterMoreUseful&quot;&gt;popup dialog&lt;/a&gt; in Blork. Movin right along! :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:19:32 GMT" pgfnum="8928" text="Update: I changed the HTML and the stylesheet so that the header is an &amp;lt;h1&gt; instead of a &amp;lt;p&gt;. This was suggested in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/22/newHeaderOnScriptingNews.html#comment-293073991&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; by Drew Kime as the semantically correct thing to do. I agree. I'm starting to feel semi-confident about my CSS. In fact, yesterday I switched over a table-based layout to a completely CSS-based one. And it's better this way. Oy I feel like I'm becoming a Believer. Please stop me. "></outline>
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