Up, Up and Away
The Firefox 3.5 RC1 has arrived, which means that our friendly robot’s quest for Shiretoko is almost over. Appropriately, it’s a triumphant scene, with cherry blossoms raining down and the robot himself striking a Superman pose. Thanks to artist Josh Burcham for coming up with another cool illustration in the ongoing series.
On the technical side, this page also features 3.5’s new @font-face capabilities, serving up some slick comic booky text as real HTML text rather than a clunky graphic. The robot is happy about that, too.
Onward and upward!
June 21st, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I don’t have Firebug installed yet but it looks like text-shadow was used too.
Pretty cool stuff!
What does the future hold for the robot?
June 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Ken, good question about the robot’s future. I have a feeling that he’s heading for the robot retirement village – it’s getting time for something new – but I also wouldn’t be surprised if he continues to occasionally pop up here and there.
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:07 am
A technical note: The background image (that one with the robot) should have a fallback background color, so that the text is also readable while the image is still loading, or when images are disabled altogether.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Robot retirement village ??? no way. The quest continues… this is my favorite illustration from the new series.