Fwd: Re: [WW] Use of Textual Graphics on Web Pages

>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:45:30 -0700
>From: Robin Liston <rliston@home.com>
>Subject: Re: [WW] Use of Textual Graphics on Web Pages
>
>I use graphical text a lot because:
>
>1) The client usually has some text in his logo which absolutely must match
>his printed logo
>
>2) The chance that most web users will have fonts that I specify on their
>computers (other than arial/helevetica, times new roman, courier, and
>symbol) are pretty slim, therefore I must make a graphic out of that text.
>
>3) CSS is still too buggy for me. I only use CSS on Intranet sites or other
>sites where I have control on the browsers and fonts installed on each
>computer.
>
>4) I know people with older browsers can't see CSS formatted pages properly
>(if at all), I do know they can see graphical text or the ALT tags.
>
>5) Sometimes I need absolute control how much space "text" should take up.
>I then use graphical text.
>
>6) Sometimes the only graphics on the page are the graphical text nav
>buttons. Without the buttons the page would be too text heavy and too boring.
>
>7) Maybe this has changed... but don't you need to use images (usually
>text/images nav buttons) for mouseovers/image swapping?
>
>9) Looking back on the sites I've done...  I've used graphical text on
>every one.
>
>
>You have my permission to forward this to the WAI.
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Wednesday, 27 September 2000 01:57:24 UTC