Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

@font-face

June 13th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

A big handicap graphic design for the web had to put up with until recently was being limited to a small number of ‘web-safe‘ fonts. These web-safe fonts were the lucky few considered so widespread that the chances of having a visitor that didn’t have them installed were negligible.

The fact that something as primary as the ability to download online fonts was lacking in HTML / CSS for so long made it necessary for third party technology-based hacks (as for instance sIFR) to fill up the gap.

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Flash alternatives already

April 11th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in Front-end development

Flash (“Adobe Flash” formerly Macromedia Flash, and even longer ago as FutureSplash), has in recent years finally gotten some serious competition. Oddly this hasn’t really happened often yet in Flash’s fifteen years of existence.

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