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That's Cufon -- poor man's web fonts. Cufon uses flash to show text with the font you wanted instead of loading a font file, which wasn't possible until CSS3.
by solox3 12y ago
That's Cufon -- poor man's web fonts. Cufon uses flash to show text with the font you wanted instead of loading a font file, which wasn't possible until CSS3.
- batuhanicoz 12y agoIt now uses canvas element instead of Flash, AFAIK. Maybe it falls back to Flash when the browser doesn't support HTML5. A bit OT but: Shouldn't it better to use native CSS3 font feature instead of canvas? Guess I know what I'll research this evening.
- sxtxixtxcxh 12y agoweb fonts were available in the late 90s... long before css3