[Wylug-help] linux and flash

[that guy]

On 5/22/07, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> Shaun Laughey writes:
>
> > Yes, accessibility works to an extent in flash. Within flashes own
> > limited accessibility definitions.
> >
> > As for searchable - no.
> >
> > As for accessible using alternate browsers - no.
> >
> > Overall flash is a poor substitute for nice hard text ...
>
> Unless you make it a _literal_ substitute for nice hard text.  That is,
> your HTML source contains normal Lynx- and Google-friendly text, which
> can be styled with CSS and so on.  But you mark subheadings (or
> pull-quotes or whatever else you want to stand out in a particular font)
> with an HTML class attribute.  JavaScript then finds all such text and
> substitutes it with a Flash object which renders the same text but in
> your specified font:
>
>   http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
>
> Obviously this only happens if you have both Flash and JavaScript (and
> the script thinks that your browser is up to doing this cleanly);
> otherwise the page is unchanged from what you'd normally get, so it
> degrades nicely.
>
> And even the HTML source is quite clean; an extra class on some elements
> isn't much clutter (certainly nowhere near as bad as inline JavaScript,
> or the HTML for embedding Flash objects).
>
> I first heard of this when our web design team used it for subheadings
> on our website, for example on:
>
>   http://www.123-reg.co.uk/dedicated-server-hosting/
>
> There are classes like sIFR_white on some of the text.  I don't have
> Flash enabled and the site in no way looks defective or like it's
> missing something, but fancier text is there as an enhancement for those
> with browsers who support it.
>
> Smylers
>
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i have heard that openlaszlo "compiles" to both "dhtml" and flash.
never used it. but no one mentioned it [perhaps for good reason...]

i do like the idea of not being hobbled by flash though.