For this reason, few designers stray outside
tried-and-true options, such as Arial, Helvetica, and Times New Roman, for the majority of their content.
This use of limited fonts is especially grating to print designers coming to the Web who rely on
typography as a primary design tool. The advent of Dynamic HTML promised to bring a wider selection
of typefaces with so-called dynamic font technology, but lack of built-in cross-browser support for any one
system dashed those hopes.
The Flash text feature enables the designer to use any TrueType font to create low-weight, jaggies-free headings,
right from within Dreamweaver. The ubiquitous nature of the Flash Player ensures cross-browser support
without resorting to GIF images, which are often not as crisp as required. Moreover, with Flash text,
you can easily declare a second color for automatically enabled rollovers??”you don??™t even have to attach a
Dreamweaver behavior.
The Flash text feature is especially useful for creating headings in a corporate-approved typeface. Because it
doesn??™t involve downloading a font resource, as dynamic font technologies do, there is no concern about
the misuse of copyrighted fonts. The only downside to Flash text when compared to a dynamic font technology
is that Flash text cannot be searched on a page.
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