Comments on: Talk of the Weather website released http://blog.iconara.net/2008/02/20/talk-of-the-weather-website-released/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Theo http://blog.iconara.net/2008/02/20/talk-of-the-weather-website-released/#comment-5774 Theo Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:02:35 +0000 http://blog.iconara.net/2008/02/20/talk-of-the-weather-website-released/#comment-5774 <p>I have found that Flash's "anti-alias for readability" uglifies fonts way too much for my liking in general, but as it is it's not optimal, I agree.</p> <p>I don't see the content changing very often so it's in a simple XML file which is read by the Flash version and the PHP that generates the HTML. If it would change more often I would probably used a CMS which generated the HTML and the XML instead.</p> I have found that Flash’s “anti-alias for readability” uglifies fonts way too much for my liking in general, but as it is it’s not optimal, I agree.

I don’t see the content changing very often so it’s in a simple XML file which is read by the Flash version and the PHP that generates the HTML. If it would change more often I would probably used a CMS which generated the HTML and the XML instead.

]]> By: Tom H http://blog.iconara.net/2008/02/20/talk-of-the-weather-website-released/#comment-5773 Tom H Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:53:30 +0000 http://blog.iconara.net/2008/02/20/talk-of-the-weather-website-released/#comment-5773 <p>Seeing as the custom font appears to be the main reason for using Flash in this case, I'd say you could do with tweaking the sharpness & weight - it's a bit difficult to read.</p> <p>Nice to see you're continuing to use (good) progressive enhancement though :), how are you handling content updating? Is the XML and HTML populated from the same source, does one use the other?</p> Seeing as the custom font appears to be the main reason for using Flash in this case, I’d say you could do with tweaking the sharpness & weight - it’s a bit difficult to read.

Nice to see you’re continuing to use (good) progressive enhancement though :), how are you handling content updating? Is the XML and HTML populated from the same source, does one use the other?

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