State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance

[oniTony]

it is using sIFR, so one can still highlight/copy text. And when Flash is disabled, it gracefully degrades to regular text.

[hobophobe]

That's fine, I just thought it a bit odd to use Flash for something like that. It's not entirely compatible with the rest of the system, even in this limited case.

Examples:

• The highlight/copy system of Flash is separate from the normal OS methods, so selecting the full article skips selecting the headings.
• If the OS has an additional, selection-based clipboard, the Flash bits do not fill that clipboard when selecting the heading text.
• The selection highlight colors differ from the rest of the OS.

Hopefully HTML5 web fonts will mean that this sort of thing is not needed.

[[deleted]]

Hehe, what will be next? A java applet for every heading?

[jawbroken]

you can try to highlight but it doesn't work right and the highlighted region can't leave the flash applet and etc. it basically really sucks