A “Test All” feature has been added to TAAG. It will let you test all 281 fonts. You can access it by selecting the font called “__TEST ALL__”. It’s not as fast as I’d like, but it’s not terribly slow either. I debated uploading it but I finally decided to give in. I’m still trying to get a feel for the kind of load I can put my server under. Most of the work for this feature is done with Javascript, but the font files are still parsed and loaded on the server. That doesn’t seem like a whole lot of work, but I’m on shared hosting so it’s unclear how much is too much. Also, this new feature is still in BETA, so it may be a little buggy. Let me know if you have any problems.
After this, there’s only one more feature I’m interested in adding to TAAG. And it’s one of those things that most people wont notice and it’ll be a pain in the ass to program. So it’s way down on my list of things to do. In the meantime I’ll probably just keep working on other things and, when the mood strikes me, look into ways of optimizing TAAG.
That reminds me, I was reading a rather interesting article earlier this week on the death of Gmail:
The cliff notes (possibly a little over simplified): History shows that utilizing new but bloated technology pays off in the long run because hardware keeps getting faster and faster and/or people find ways of speeding it up. It’s better to be ontop on the new technology than to be stuck working within the constraits of the old technology.
It’s an interesting read, but I don’t think the people at Google are so smug that they’d let a new technology slip by them like that. Plus, I don’t think most people would be so quick to give up their Gmail addresses.