Liquid layouts and flash accessibility (WAS: Re: Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing]))

[Erik Mattheis]

>on a note related to the current flash accessibility discussion, i've seen
>a few pages that have completely liquid flash design using percentage based
>height and width. for a simple example, see here:
>http://www.munchfonts.com/Flash/sampletext.html ... i'm not too
>flash-adept, but why don't more flash sites utilize this?

One reason is that once you get down to around 12 pixels for a font,
it becomes blurry in Flash unless you use a font that's specifically
designed to be used in Flash: a font where the outline only follows
the spaces between pixels, including the kerning. And if you give the
SWF percentage width and height, it throws off the pixel precision.

Another reason might be because Flash's default publish settings
export HTML which specifies pixel width and height.
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