- From: Spartanicus <spartanicus.3@ntlworld.ie>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:29:00 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> Images of text is almost always a bad idea. Imo CSS should discourage >> such usage and instead provide tilting and 3D font decorative effects >> like shadows and extruding. > >This would probably be the minimum to get commercial designers on >board, but I suspect that the imperative to be different would cause >them to revert to images once they'd exhausted the new technology. Not being a designer my list of text effects is likely to limited. CSS should be capable of providing most of the effects people currently apply to "text" with graphic editors. If CSS could do that, and if implemented on desktop browsers who imo have the resources to do such fancy things, the use of text as bitmaps would be an exception in future code. Resource strapped devices such as mobile renderers would likely simply not implement such, but in my experience that won't bother designers. As long as it looks good on their and their boss' and mates' desktop platforms the attitude is "I'm alright Jack". -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)
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