Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) | WPDFD.com Forums

Flaxen said:

03/30/04, 090 18 2004 2004:%i:1080634695 03:18:15

Recently came across FIR, and the other related subjects, although I'm sure it's old news to many of you out there. On the offchance that you dont' know what I'm talking about go here:

http://www.stopdesign.com/also/articles/replace_text/

My query is that there is quite an array of opinion out there, because, whilst it seems to be a great way of improving accessibility when using font images etc, it also seems that it causes almost as many problems as it solves.

If anyone has an opinion I'd be interested to hear it.

Joe Gillespie said:

03/30/04, 090 28 2004 2004:%i:1080642487 05:28:07

One of the problems that it causes (but easily fixed) is that dumb old IE (Windows) makes the div two or three pixels taller than expected. Adding overflow: hidden; fixes it.

I'm introducing a new method of doing rollovers in the next issue of WPDFD (this Thursday) which uses the background-image property of divs - and shifting it on rollover to display a new image. Can also be used to animate JPEGs and PNGs.

Jdenny said:

03/30/04, 090 46 2004 2004:%i:1080643606 05:46:46

I'm currently using a diffrent technique, I don't know what it's called or if it has a name, but there's two variations, one for if you want to see the text in front of the image, and the other is if you don't want to see the text.

The HTML looks a bit like like this: [tt]

A couple of words go here

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My Web Design site shows the first sort (where the text is shown in front).
and the CSS for that is [tt]http://www.alpha-matrix-design.co.uk/css/tabs.css[/tt]