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I think the benefit of using styled text over images is they scale up nicely, instead of becoming pixelated. On the desktop this maybe isn't so important, but i
by jbrennan 16y ago
I think the benefit of using styled text over images is they scale up nicely, instead of becoming pixelated. On the desktop this maybe isn't so important, but it makes a nice difference if you're zooming in on a mobile browser (or using a high-resolution display like iPhone 4's display).
- tintin 16y agoWell that's why SVG is implemented. <img src="my_svg_logo.svg" alt=""> Now you even support more browsers.
- jbrennan 16y agoMaybe I'm misinterpreting (or just have my facts wrong) but I thought SVG is generally poorly supported among browsers, even today. I seem to think WebKit browsers have decent support for it (though I remember it being sluggish in desktop Safari, and broken in Mobile Safari), and I'm not sure about IE support. Conversely, the newer CSS text effects seem to have better support. But I could be wrong. I'm not a web developer, it's just what I seem to remember.
- tintin 16y agoTrue, but the support will be better than using CSS for logo's.
- collypops 16y agoThat was one of the main reasons behind it. Viewports are getting larger/smaller and sharper all the time, so we'll soon get to a point where we want our sites to scale, but we'll be limited by fixed-size images.