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Cool stuff. He obviously said it wasn't intended for production, but the major issue that comes to mind is SEO since engines won't see the text as actual text. Really cool proof of concept though.

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Not being able to select/copy text is pretty annoying too.

You can copy the text. It just doesn't have the outline to show you what's selected. Which is quite annoying, yes.

Search engines will see the actual text, it's just hidden with CSS. You can see it when you turn off CSS (Firefox: view -> page style -> no style).

Missed that, thanks for the heads up! Now my only issue would be that the text-indent: -9999em method has been known to get you flagged for spam for obvious reasons.

But I'm being facetious. I like to play devil's advocate. :o)

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