sIFR, Rich Web Typography is Good
I just installed sIFR 2.0 on this blog… and I must say I’m impressed. I’ve tested it on IE, Firefox and Safari, and it works perfectly. It degrades gracefully, too. I tested it on IE 5 for the Mac, and my old title appeared. The only drawback is that it has to wait for the whole page to load before it replaces your text with the sIFR includes.
It was a snap to install, but a little tricky to tweak. I was trying to adjust the line heights on my titles, but it caused the titles to scale in odd ways depending on the length of the text field. From their site:
Over the last several months, a small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics.
Their work has definately paid off. Very very nice work!
