- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:45:43 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "karld@opera.com" <karld@opera.com>, "nrm@arcanedomain.com" <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, "ndw@nwalsh.com" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
Larry Masinter wrote: > > While detailed data might be hard to come by, how about ONE example > of a page "in the wild" with this property... > The SIFR method would be a common-enough example: http://www.google.com/search?q=sifr+image+replacement SIFR fails when served as application/xhtml+xml. I don't see image replacement going away any time soon, as WOFF (unlike EOT) requires the user-agent to download the entire font as opposed to the limited number of glyphs required for a site's headings (in many cases). Too much latency is added on landing pages vs. using image replacement. The newer Facelift image replacement method works polyglot, though, so SIFR serves only as an example of in-the-wild failure, not as an example of something which *cannot* be done. -Eric
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