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Thread ID: 111127 2010-07-15 04:47:00 Website design question nofam (9009) PC World Chat
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1118920 2010-07-15 04:47:00 Just been using Post Haste Courier's website (www.posthaste.co.nz) to do a track & trace, and I see all the form heading elements in it are .swf objects.

Why would one design a site in such a way? The elements don't appear to be animated in any way, and most fancy form-based sites I've seen recently use CSS to do the heavy lifting?
nofam (9009)
1118921 2010-07-15 04:56:00 Looks like javascript to me. Cellux (15145)
1118922 2010-07-15 05:24:00 Looks like javascript to me.

Yeah, it is, but the objects all share the same heading:


www.posthaste.co.nz
nofam (9009)
1118923 2010-07-15 06:29:00 Dunno, but it was hopeless last time I used it.
I ended up ringing and got a very helpful woman
who answered my query in no time at all.
Won't bother with the website in future.
KarameaDave (15222)
1118924 2010-07-15 06:32:00 One of the more common reasons for doing that is to use custom fonts on a webpage, where the font may not be installed on the client system. The flash object does the rendering, and the javascript tells it what to render. Erayd (23)
1118925 2010-07-15 07:10:00 One of the more common reasons for doing that is to use custom fonts on a webpage, where the font may not be installed on the client system. The flash object does the rendering, and the javascript tells it what to render.

Edifying & succinct as usual Erayd - many thanks. :thumbs:
nofam (9009)
1118926 2010-07-16 04:27:00 It's a technique popularised by sIFR (www.mikeindustries.com), nowadays people just embed fonts (delicious.com). sal (67)
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