While the whole "hey I'm bored, I'm going to redesign evs again" craze is upon me, Windows machines with a standard font set might see a rather dull and lacklustre typeface in certain segments of the site. Unfortunately I've been hard at work milling away, trying to get a flash replacement method working.
Flash replacement entails using fancy-pants javascript methods to replace certain types of text on a web page with an embedded flash object. This allows users to see fonts and typefaces which may not be installed on the viewers' systems, just as God the designer intends. In other words, it is a method of implementing more typographic control on a web page.
Well that's the idea in a packet of nuts. Unfortunately I'm finding it a little annoying. I've implemented it before, yet the current version (2.0.6, I am led to believe) affords me quite a substantial bucket of time in which to vent my pent-up frustrations. For that I am grateful, however it was not the goal I really set out to achieve.
All I want is a functional flash replacement method. Is that so hard to ask? Toil, toil and toil some more. Oh, and this isn't intended to be a rag on sIFR. I love it to pieces. I'm merely finding a bucket in which to spill my urge to blame my lack of debugging skills.
Task: complete.
So, back to you users looking at the old-skool, dull-as-pants typography here; I'll get to you.
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Mark Wubben 07.18.08 at 3:05 am
Cheers for upgrading, and did you play around with v3 yet? Get the latest nightly build, it's pretty sweet! (Quite different, but hopefully easier…)
Elliot 07.18.08 at 12:11 pm
I had before decided to wait til v3 was out officially, but since you insist I'll just have to go get me some of that. Thanks for the comment!