I want to use After Disaster font on my website, but I can't achieve the same vertical position of displayed text in different browsers. Even more - it is dependent on system too. You may test this:
http://jsfiddle.net/z7rby/1/
On Linux Google Chrome displays text about one pixel higher than Firefox and Opera. On Windows Google Chrome displays it in the middle of background. What can I do with that?
There is no way to solve this problem. You have to accept that fonts will be rendered slightly differently on different systems, and find another way to achieve your visual goals.
You can control your layout via positioning CSS e.g. width, height but not font rendering.
If that level of control is not "good enough" then you can write browser-dependent CSS (tutorials exist online) to compensate for differences.
But please remember the goal in all computing is "good enough": Perfection is not cost-effective!
Once you have achieved a level where further improvements require a certain effort, but there are more important things to spend that effort on, that is the point when you have finished.
I'm working on a web project that has some accessibility features mandated by the client, including a "font size changer" to allow the font size to be increased for visually impaired users.
Despite my arguments that a better experience will be had by using the built-in zoom features in the browser, the client has insisted that their users will not know to use these built-in features, so we must provide a text size changing widget.
What I'd like to do, if possible, is cause these page elements to invoke the browser's own zoom functionality (Ctrl + + in firefox, for example). If the browser doesn't support this method of zooming, then I might fall back to increasing the font size with css.
How can I best implement this kind of feature? Is it even possible? Is there some solution that I've overlooked?
There is no way as far as I know to use the browser's built in function. However it can be done with CSS3 or javascript. for a CSS3 example look here: http://www.css3.com/css-zoom/
How does jQueryMobile shows "..." when there's not enough space to view all the text?
Is it an CSS attribute?
There is a CSS attribute for this -- it is text-overflow:ellipsis;.
However, there is one problem with it: it doesn't work in Firefox. It works in all other browsers, but not Firefox, not even FF4. I understand it's planned for FF5 or FF6.
In Firefox, it would need to be done using pure Javascript, which is where the JQuery would need to do some work. To do it accurately, it would need to calculate the physical size of the text in pixels, character by character. It is possible that it does use the CSS property in other browsers. It would make sense.
See this post: text-overflow:ellipsis in Firefox 4? (and FF5) for a further discussion of this issue specific to Firefox.
I tested my site on a mobile device and it loaded pretty quickly. However i had to scroll right to see all of the text. The text was pretty big as well.
How can i redesign my site so i dont need to do any scrolling and have smaller text? I know i I seen this before but i cant remember what site did it.
i removed my css and the device scrolled right until the end of my largest div. So i need css to solve this? What css do i need to make the text not big and not cause the user to scroll (horz) no matter how small his screen is?
Also do i detect the user agent in .NET and link an alternative css file or do i detect which css to use elsewhere?
yes you should design an own css-file for the mobile version of your website. either you check the useragent if it's a handheld or you work with the css media type handheld (which is not supported by older browsers) to load the different css-file.
edit:
with css you can also replace images with text
Is there a good way to create crisp, clear, LARGE font in webpages? I need to create a tag cloud effect on my homepage with different font sizes and colours.
I've got it set up in HTML/CSS but on the older browsers or OS's which don't support anti-aliasing as default it looks a bit... crappy.
I've played with sIFR, which worked beautifully but gave me some horrible load effects but I'm now wondering if there is a way to:
a) do browser/OS detection to split users by browser/OS combinations which I KNOW support anti-aliasing (they get raw HTML) and by "others" who get an image tag.
b) Some sort of JavaScript to add antialiasing?
c) Permanent solution to load a BG image in the div and hide the HTML text. (I know, I know, Google horror stories about de-indexing... but is it possible?)
a) Of course you can use browser detection. The easiest way to do this is probably using jQuery's browser method. (jQuery is an awesome JavaScript library that makes a lot of JS-development easier in case you haven't heard)
Depending on what browser (or OS) results you get, you could present the user with different solutions, from normal text to something like a Flash solution.
However, I advise against it. Things look better on new machines than old ones. That's just the way it is, which is why I recommend against spending precious time on minor glitches in older browsers. -- Unless users with older browsers are your main demographic of course. In this case, how about you just do it in Flash altogether? No use coding up two solutions if one always works, right?
b) You can in fact create anti-aliased text via JavaScript. Have a look at my project Die Stimme Gottes ("Voice of God" -- not for the religiously squeamish) for an example. In this project, I used the excellent typeface.js for this.
c) Just use CSS, maybe?
h1.welcome {
background: url('the-welcome-image.png') no-repeat;
color: transparent;
}
+1 Hank's comment. You have very little to gain by doing this. Some desktop browsers (including IE7+ and Safari) turn on anti-aliasing by default even when it's off at an OS level, and modern (post-XP) OSs tend to turn it on by default anyway. By forcing AA on the rest, you'll:
(+) improve the display a little for IE6 and XP+Firefox users who unwittingly don't have AA
(-) make loading slower for everyone (but especially users of limited mobile devices)
(-) defeat preferred font sizes
(-) unnecessarily annoy the luddites who deliberately disable anti-aliasing because it's “all blurry”(*)
(*: there are limited cases where this does even make sense, particularly for old, fuzzy CRT monitors.)
By the looks of it the best methods (in no real order) are:
1) Use an image. If you rely on SEO for the site then by all means add html and hide it using css using one of these methods
2) typeface.js - JS which will work across most modern browsers. Has some bugs and glitches but works nicely. If you're going to force anti-aliasing on your users then this works. Use sparingly. Author working on Opera and IE8 compatability though...
2) sIFR - Excellent script which dynamically replaces your selected areas of text with flash movies. Again some bugs and glitches, but if you're simply interested in awesome looking font then this is perfect. Increases your page load though, so as ever more is less, use sparingly.
I tend not to go with JS heavy solutions, as I like to have lightning quick page loads, but if you HAVE to have some good looking fonts, then these seem to be the most graceful and simple methods.
-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;
Force background color, redefining it for the class or element with the same background color. It works.
span.your_class {
writing-mode: tb-rl;
filter: flipv fliph;
background-color: #006cb8 !important;
}
Flash or Silverlight are your best bets for great looking font rendering