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But why oh why is the whole page built from tiny little Flash things? It looks ridiculous if Click2Flash (or similar) is installed. Unusable.

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> But why oh why is the whole page built from tiny little Flash things? It looks ridiculous if Click2Flash (or similar) is installed. Unusable.

Custom fonts, HTML4-way.

I have Opera/Linux without Flash plugin, and I could read everything just fine. Strange.

It tries to use Flash for fonts and falls back to standard html if you are missing the Flash plugin. If you use something that blocks Flash then you just see boxes everywhere there is supposed to be a text heading.

Am using FF4.0b6 with FlashBlock 1.5.14.2 and it correctly fell back to standard html.

I guess this is a Chrome problem, then.

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