Comments on: Cufón speed test

By: Cicada | Superposition Kitty

Cicada | Superposition Kitty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:07:04 +0000

[...] Here I’ve chosen to have cufon replace all h1, h2, h3, and p elements. It’s not recommended to use cufon to replace body text like I’ve done here unless it’s less than 1,000 characters. [...]

By: Sercan Virlan » Blog Archive » Cufon

Sercan Virlan » Blog Archive » Cufon — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:46:17 +0000

[...] sIFR e göre daha hızlıdır, hız testi için tıklayınız. [...]

By: Mike Croteau

Mike Croteau — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:53:56 +0000

Wow, glad I came across this. Now I feel like a noob at advanced UI stuff. I had recently implemented Cufon for not only headings but body text as well. It worked fine if you didnt switch from page to page rather quickly, but as soon as you tried switching pages fast (not allowing it to finishing loading) Firefox 3.5.5 would crash. It worked fine in Chrome, Safari, Opera and believe it or not IE. I posted a comment in the Cufon support group… no one warned me of the danger of trying to use for all copy text. Until now, I was unable to find a way to show someone an example besides my own where firefox crashes. For a while there, I thought I had a problem with my overall implementation. Thanks for this post and enlightening me!

By: Dan Nye

Dan Nye — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:14:32 +0000

@Nick: I see this all the time in Fx 3.0.x.x when using Cufon for lots of local development… even with all add-ons disabled. All menu text (and some other text as well) turns into a few underscores / underlines.

Interestingly enough, the problem doesn’t seem to appear in Fx 3.5.x.

By: Dominic Coballe

Dominic Coballe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:28 +0000

Can we all make a pact to never use it for strings of text longer than 10 words. Only for nav, headers. Maybe Confucius quotes, maybe.

By: Nick Rodgers

Nick Rodgers — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:02:41 +0000

Wow. Your test really ripped up Firefox 3.0.12. I lost all the text on my menus.

By: lobo_tuerto

lobo_tuerto — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:12:45 +0000

How does Opera perform in this test?

It would be cool to include it in the tests.

By: Robert Reinhard

Robert Reinhard — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:06:13 +0000

@Woest. It did for me. after a bit. It was white at first but then rendered the text. This is on a Mac. It chilled on the white for a long time though.

I don’t talk to many people who use Opera, is that your preferred browser?

By: Woest

Woest — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:18:51 +0000

You’re test does not work in opera (10). As in, in does not show any replaced text, as it does in safari.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:05:47 +0000

Ha. A client asked if we could use a script font for the body text. Even though I didn’t want to take the time to figure out just why it would be a bad idea (not including that it would destroy the UI) I’m glad I can now reference these tests as an excuse of why their site shouldn’t look like a friggin’ love letter.

Thanks!

By: nachomaans

nachomaans — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:52:56 +0000

thanks for this testing page! cufon just like sifr is meant for headings, nav and other short text, definitely not for copy text. text selection is limited anyway.

By: Mark Eagleton

Mark Eagleton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:17:31 +0000

Cufon renders each word in a canvas element nested within a span element. The original word is also rendered inside an additional span element within the same parent span element as the canvas. This is an acceptable solution for headings, but you need to have your head examined if you are using it for body copy.