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adobe-webplatform / dropcap.js

Beautiful CSS drop caps made easy
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Explain the issues with CSS-only drop caps #7

Closed ChaseOnTheWeb closed 9 years ago

ChaseOnTheWeb commented 9 years ago

I came across this project and wondered what was wrong with doing drop caps with :first-letter. The README doesn't explain the limitations of the CSS-only technique; it just links off to a sarcastic Tumblr of bad examples.

Looks like you guys actually wrote a good post on that very subject that I'd encourage sharing in the README for the benefit of other curious folk: http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2014/10/02/drop-caps-are-beautiful/

sylvain-galineau commented 9 years ago

The tumblr is not really sarcastic; it is representative of what is out there. And what is out there is a reflection of what, unfortunately, you're going to get if you don't do a lot of work...which, as the blog post does explain, will fall apart at the first font fallback.

Linking to it and/or providing a little more background here is a good suggestion though. Will do.

sylvain-galineau commented 9 years ago

Clarified in README.md update. Thank you!