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solox3 on May 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing...

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 on May 16, 2014 | [–]

It 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 on May 17, 2014 | [–]

web fonts were available in the late 90s... long before css3

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