Are Downloadable Fonts better???

[John Croteau]

Hi everyone,


I NEED HELP. Please give me ammunition so I can give a best response to

Taylor, whose belief is that Downloadable fonts are now and Flash is not

a viable solution. I think I have a good answer but want as many

constructive suggests (Note constructive) so that I might polish my

responce. This thread is on the new monkeyjunkies list.

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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, John Croteau wrote:


> To get anti-aliased scalable text consider using Flash instead of

> limiting yourself to 4.x browsers with 2 different technologies for

> embedding fonts. Flash also can be delivered as Java and loads and plays

> quickly if you don't animate too much. If the client has the Flash

> plug-in/ActiveX control Flash streams and simple Graphics are always

> immediate.


Not to start a religious war, but I don't think it's a good idea to make

your text a binary executable.  I don't think it's a good idea to make

your text an image either.  It removes the meaning from your page and

prevents its from degrading, and from being indexed.  Downloadable fonts

is a much better solution IMHO.


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