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Most Helpful Reviews
Finally, a purely client-side Javascript (no Flash, no images) font replacement library!
This library is small but functional, and has zero dependencies.
It's pretty fast, and has decent support for all browsers except Opera (but that's a bug in Opera, which is fixed in the upcoming version).
It has a server-side companion script to convert truetype fonts to Javascript files, which is unfortunately not freely available at this point; you'll have to upload your fonts to the webpage, for now.
Because it draws the fonts using the Canvas element (or VML in IE), it cannot support the full CSS transformation and effects you can apply to type, which is a shortcoming you have to be aware of.
You will also have to keep in mind that CSS font "properties" like font-weight and italics (but *not* underlining) are actually different fonts in the same font family so you'll have to upload the bold version of the font to generate a Javascript font file in order to be able to use it to replace text in elements that are styled with the font-weight property (remember, headings are boldfaced by default).
All in all, I'm very happy with this library because it makes maintenance of website headings in a CMS less of a chore -- in fact, it allows our customers to manage the headings as content without worrying about generating a new background image to replace the text with, every time.
Most Recent Reviews
Finally, a purely client-side Javascript (no Flash, no images) font replacement library!
This library is small but functional, and has zero dependencies.
It's pretty fast, and has decent support for all browsers except Opera (but that's a bug in Opera, which is fixed in the upcoming version).
It has a server-side companion script to convert truetype fonts to Javascript files, which is unfortunately not freely available at this point; you'll have to upload your fonts to the webpage, for now.
Because it draws the fonts using the Canvas element (or VML in IE), it cannot support the full CSS transformation and effects you can apply to type, which is a shortcoming you have to be aware of.
You will also have to keep in mind that CSS font "properties" like font-weight and italics (but *not* underlining) are actually different fonts in the same font family so you'll have to upload the bold version of the font to generate a Javascript font file in order to be able to use it to replace text in elements that are styled with the font-weight property (remember, headings are boldfaced by default).
All in all, I'm very happy with this library because it makes maintenance of website headings in a CMS less of a chore -- in fact, it allows our customers to manage the headings as content without worrying about generating a new background image to replace the text with, every time.