Mike Davidson has just announced that sIFR 2.0 has been officially released. sIFR provideds “Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses”, by allowing web designers to include any font via a small flash movie embedded into their web sites. The technique is mainly used to replace headings by using the JavaScript and the DOM and degrades nicely if the client browser does not support either Flash, JS or the DOM. Davidson provides background on sIFR and thoroughly explains how it works/best practices, warning that you must not overuse sIFR, reiterating that it is best used for headlines, pull quotes, and other small areas of text.
This is a very interesting hybrid technology, combining JavaScript, CSS and Flash and it produces very distinctive results visually, not quite like anything I’ve seen before.
