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sIFR – Font Replacement Technology Explained Pt 2

Author: Mark Elphinstone-Hoadley

Feb 22

sIFR…

 
…stands for scalable Inman Flash Replacement. It allows the designer to use the font of their choice by embedding it in Flash (SWF) and then, using JavaScript, hide the text of each selected HTML element and embed a SWF file that displays the text as their font family choice.
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    • Font Replacement Technology Explained

    Author: Mark Elphinstone-Hoadley

    Feb 18

    Having spent the last couple of years studying and integrating Font Replacement technology and removing it and plugging it in again and configuring CSS values in 5 different browsers and chewing bits of rubber foam off my decrepit stress ball… I found it would be quite generous to relieve you, the blogger/web designer/web developer of causing any further harm to inanimate objects.

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    • Web Design in Oxford

    Author: Gareth Nixon

    Feb 17

    When I first picked up my web design mouse 14 years ago, here in Oxford, I think I made some subconscious decision to push my personality to one side and become the archetypal pseudo-geek; pushing pixels, typing raw code and generally creating some kind of artificial angst upon which to hang my virtual coat: My vision of what a Web Designer Should Be. This, I quickly realised, did not work well.

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