No Flash, works with scripting turned off, text is selectable (yes, I know you can select the individual sIFR bits, but that just ain't the same :)), colours, size, etc. are easily manipulated via. CSS,
As I have understood, you can select large text blocks with sIFR also; you just don't see the headings being selected (this is a serious flaw, dont' get me wrong, but you can select textblocks).
probably has a better chance of being understood by screenreaders that are in use today.
Would be nice if someone could test this (sIFR vs @font-face) with Jaws and a tactile viewer (braille). This is especially interesting as most accessibility applications tap into IE's rendering engine.
I'm sure there are ways around it in sIFR, but from what I can see it doesn't scale the text according to user font size preferences, or obey user style sheets.
sIFR scales headings to the box available at script execution, basically allowing you to set the size in the stylesheet. It doesn't do dynamic scaling (i.e. scaling after document load), however, which is a pity.
Plus it just doesn't feel as 'hacky' to me :)
Anyway, it's just an idea, if you want more control over typography, then go with sIFR (or get Quark & start doing print design :p)
Am there, doing that. ;-)
Jeroen
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