text that looks antialiased
ok guys,
obviously its better to use text in ur html rather than images with text on them - normally it doesnt bother me but this time i think the ant aliased look photshop give text just looks so much better
can i recreate this in a brwoser without using an image?
JP
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 20:17 — 23rd April 2005.
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Probably not. Antialiasing is originally handled by the client's font-rendering engine, which is usually beyond the browser itself. Although, I know Mozilla can tweak inherited settings locally. Even if there was a way to access these settings on a web page, it's not likely to work across different browsers or OSes.
dk01 posted this at 20:21 — 24th April 2005.
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I know this isn't really what you want but its so much easier than creating a new image for each heading. It requires you have php with the gd extension installed.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext
Or you could use something like this:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t302590.html
The only reason images should not be used is if you are worried about bandwidth, if you don't use alt attributes, or if you are using them to hold your design in place (transparent placeholders). There is nothing wrong with having images as long as you page is not affected by turning off image, or by using a text-only browser.
-dk
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