Serves me right for not launching earlier. Anyway kudos, very impressive. He's taken a similar approach to me, generalising the common letter shapes into sets of css rules. Mine's designed to allow for image or gradient textures on the letters, and degrades gracefully on older browsers (loses its curves!). His is way prettier though.
Only because he actually includes the text in the outer span tag. It's entirely unnecessary for display purposes. Remove that, and bots would have to do OCR.
Each character is wrapped in a <span> tag. I would imagine most address collector bots don't bother to actually parse HTML, so they would be thrown off by that.
Of course, if that's the case, then the <span> trick can be used on its own without a CSS font at all.
Cool stuff. He obviously said it wasn't intended for production, but the major issue that comes to mind is SEO since engines won't see the text as actual text. Really cool proof of concept though.
Missed that, thanks for the heads up! Now my only issue would be that the text-indent: -9999em method has been known to get you flagged for spam for obvious reasons.
But I'm being facetious. I like to play devil's advocate.
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Serves me right for not launching earlier. Anyway kudos, very impressive. He's taken a similar approach to me, generalising the common letter shapes into sets of css rules. Mine's designed to allow for image or gradient textures on the letters, and degrades gracefully on older browsers (loses its curves!). His is way prettier though.