CHAPTER 13WORKING WITH TEXT AND STRINGS
Text helped lift the popularity of Flash early on in its existence. Though it may not seem like much of a reason for anyone to consider Flash the conquistador of multimedia web development, using decorative text in the early days of web development was a luxury that was not easily achieved. Back then, developers were limited to standard system fonts for rendering textual data, and in some instances, this is still the case.
In order for a computer to display a certain font, the font must be installed on that computer. If a design required the use of an abstract font, the common solution would be to render ...
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