learn how to install the new sIFR 3 to your website!




learn how to install the new sIFR 3 to your website!

Basic Information about sIFR

sIFR is the “Healthy alternative to browser text”, regarding to the authors Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben. With sIFR it is possible to display fonts on the internet that doesn’t have to be installed on the computer of the user. sIFR creates more typography options for the web!

The technique is a combination between Flash, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Due this fact you have to remember to use sIFR only on important titles and subtitles because otherwise it might drastically slow down your site.

How does sIFR work?

sIFR has a system that really works great. The browser of your visitor (sIFR is supported by almost all browsers that support Javascript and Flash!) loads a basic web page. Javascript checks if Flash is supported and if this is the case, Javascript adds tags around the elements that will use sIFR.

Flash will now automatically load Flash movies where the new tags are located and ActionScript fills your Flash movie with the text, typeface and size. This all happens in split seconds!