WEB AUTHORING. MAT 108 | Alejandra Jarabo |
TEXT FOR THE WEB to Web typography |
There are 2 distinct ways of publishing text over the Web: |
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With ASCII text, created by CODING HTML (formatted with CSS) |
With PICTURES of text, in the form of web-graphics (gif, jpeg, swf-flash) |
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Here is some text in html code Here some text in html code Here some text in html code Here some text in html code |
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PROS and CONS for html text |
PROS and CONS for text in a bitmap (image) format |
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You have limited control of how the text looks on the client's window _the text is shown with the fonts available in their system_ _They can change the presets of how text looks on their side(accessibilty) With CSS you can choose between a family of fonts and determine the size of the text (absolute size:18 pixels. relative size: xxsmall) |
The user has to live with it and graphic designmers seldomly think about accessibility. |
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The text is searchable by search-engines that use "robots" that only can read ASCII text |
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The image is what it is. No change is possible . This complicates the task of updating content |
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