- Rich Accessible Typography – FIR and sIFR
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Tuesday, 14th August 2007
Many people who have worked on websites know that standard HTML and CSS allows the webpage author to assign any font of their choosing to a text element on a page. However, they also know that there is no guarantee that the element will show the desired font, as the browsing user may not have the same font, or set of fonts, installed on their local system. More often than not, only a set of “common” fonts are installed, for example Arial on the PC and Helvetica on the Mac. This has been a significant issue which has been addressed by two methods: the Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) method and the Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) method.
Tags: CSS, FIR, Flash, Flash Replacement, Fonts, HTML, HTML & XHTML, Image Replacement, images, Shaun Inman, SIFR, Todd Fahrner, Typography