Too bad this breaks the fundamental rule not to us JS for basic layout. Rules are meant to be broken, but still…
Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
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Re: Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
#12Too bad this breaks the fundamental rule not to us JS for basic layout. Rules are meant to be broken, but still…
Not really, all this seems to be doing is programmatically adding spans with classes around letters/words/lines. The layout is still being specified in the CSS.
I don't think it's really violating any 'rules' as much as just providing a bit of convenience.
Re: Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
#13The font they chose for the body text looks horrible in Chrome.
Re: Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
#14Personally, I much prefer Cufon -- http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ . It has less features, but works much better for basic typography.
typeface.js > cufon
Re: Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
No redrawing was observed while viewing in Chrome 9.0.597.16
Webkit based browsers don't show the text before the @font-face font is loaded. You can achieve the same effect in Firefox and Opera by using WebFont Loader: http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-brow...
And if you're serving pages to the other end of the world it becomes prohibitively slow. I waited about 30 seconds for anything to show up on the page.