I do believe that he said "officially", not really speaking for himself, but for the CSS community that supported that method as a whole. I will ask a few others that were sitting with my at the panel.
You can get to his slides from a link on my site, as part of my write-up/review of that panel:
http://www.jeremyflint.com/wp/index.php?p=7
He did go over a few of the others that used techniques like setting negative margins on the text so that it sat off the page and using Overflow hidden and absolute positioning to cover the text up with an image.
The problem with the negative margin is that if someone was browsing with styles enabled, but images disabled, they would see nothing. The problem with the overflow:hidden method was that if you needed your image to be transparent, you could see the text behind it.
----- Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com
Justin French wrote:
On Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 09:44 AM, Jeremy Flint wrote:
btw, Doug Bowman officially deprecated the Farhner Image Replacement at SXSW monday because of the inconsitencies it has with various screen readers.
I'm a big fans of Doug, and have always avoided FIR, but the word "officially" here seems incorrect.
He may have *publicly* deprecated (expressed disapproval of) FIR, but no one man can *officially* deprecate FIR -- it's just not within his power. My guess is that Doug never used the word "officially", and I'd love to see a transcript of his presentation to read about this in context.
My hope is that he not only deprecated (expressed disapproval of) FIR, but offered an alternative :)
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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