typeface.js. Outstanding hack—renders custom fonts using VML in IE and canvas in everything else, using fonts that are defined as a set of vector paths stored using JSON.
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typeface.js. Outstanding hack—renders custom fonts using VML in IE and canvas in everything else, using fonts that are defined as a set of vector paths stored using JSON.
Hrm, I don't think IE8 (beta 2) supports VML in standards mode anymore (it is still there in quirks mode.)
It's a shame that they didn't use SVG in the non-IE case, since it looks bad when zoomed. Still quite impressive, though.
They could follow steps of google maps' team and encode glyphs data to base64-like strings for better compression.
Pretty, but completely impervious to copy-and-paste as far as I can tell. Even Flash-based SIFR seemed to allow copying. I'd hate to see whole paragraphs in a blog post wired up this way
my wife just pointed out they could layer the plain text underneith the rendered font in order to let you copy and paste... good idea.
joe - 30th October 2008 19:00 - #