Firebug says the font pack from Typekit is over 575kb. That's a lot of bytes to add to your pageload, and (in Firefox at least) it causes noticeable page redrawing as the font files are loaded.
So, while this is neat, I'd probably still go with a simple png file for things like site logos.
(I realize this is more of a critique of Typekit than the jQuery plugin; the plugin itself comes in at under 1kb.)
And if you're serving pages to the other end of the world it becomes prohibitively slow. I waited about 30 seconds for anything to show up on the page.
Not really, all this seems to be doing is programmatically adding spans with classes around letters/words/lines. The layout is still being specified in the CSS.
I don't think it's really violating any 'rules' as much as just providing a bit of convenience.
http://www.danhigbie.com/
Firebug says the font pack from Typekit is over 575kb. That's a lot of bytes to add to your pageload, and (in Firefox at least) it causes noticeable page redrawing as the font files are loaded.
So, while this is neat, I'd probably still go with a simple png file for things like site logos.
(I realize this is more of a critique of Typekit than the jQuery plugin; the plugin itself comes in at under 1kb.)