Comments for Ben Dunkle's Blog

Comment on Icon fonts by Dennis Gaebel

Dennis Gaebel — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:42:07 +0000

Yeah, kind of a double edge sword here. They’re praised in the front-end community to help boost speed(which they do) but as I see they have some more improvements to be done.

Although I don’t think all is lost with this approach for icons. We just need more research like you’re doing here. With time I think this will improve, but as Chris Van Patten says, services like Symbolset use ligatures which in essence is kind of a hack. Maybe Icon Fonts can take better advantage of the PUA instead of using ligatures.

Comment on Retina is a subjective term by Andy Staple

Andy Staple — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:12:17 +0000

I do also dislike the name of the screen (or the marketing, since that is what it really is). After using it for a couple weeks, it is nice though. Its much cleaner looking, and reading lines of code is easier, less aliasing and ghosted pixels. Added screen real-estate in applications that support retina displays is nice as well.

Still definitely a work-in-progress, but it is no doubt a large upgrade from the current mainstream panels.

Comment on Dilemna (I mean DILEMMA!) by Margie

Margie — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:01 +0000

hi, Ben, I found your blog while conducting a pretty random search on Google for my uncle, Cyrus Dunkle, of New Jersey. I’m thinking we must be related–my dad’s sister was Mary McDonald and she was married to Cyrus Dunkle. Their three children were John, Michael, and Mary (she married Jim DiNardo). Uncle Cy worked in physical chemistry, I think, and I know that at least one of his sons worked for Dupont. Does any of this sound familiar? I’d be curious to know…

Comment on The BBPress icons by Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:47:52 +0000

Are these icons available for free? I need some icons for my forums and i was wondering if i can download them?

Comment on The BBPress icons by bbPress » bbPress 2.0 (beta 1)

bbPress » bbPress 2.0 (beta 1) — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:03 +0000

[...] It still uses the same awesome icons made by Ben Dunkle [...]

Comment on Quick and Easy Recipe #2-get the kids back in school by noodle recipes

noodle recipes — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:13:49 +0000

boil some chicken with chicken boullion, and chopped celery, chopped carrots and and poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. near the end, and the noodles

Comment on Thoughts about linux (ubuntu 8.1) from a new user by แทงบอล

แทงบอล — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:40:28 +0000

Hi, I’m a webmaster in Paris. Just wanted to let you know I thought your web site was cool. Thanks!

Comment on Futura vs. Verdana by Bert Heersink

Bert Heersink — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:22:28 +0000

i was just thinking about this exact thing before hahah, good post

Comment on Futura vs. Verdana by Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:30:31 +0000

I’ve been a Lucida man for ages. I reject Verdana. But for all of my correspondence, I broke down and bought Whitney. Classy.

Comment on Coconut Shrimp Recipe by twitter adder

twitter adder — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:24:52 +0000

That sounds totally delicious and so simple to make too. I like the addition of beer, I’ll make some today and givr you some feedback.