SiFR on POGO

On the new POGO Digital website, we use SiFR to get some nice font shown across all browsers.

We know that for some browsers CSS3 can bring a nice font to the front end user and make the whole page more fun (Look at this page to see how fantastic those fonts can be. Be aware that IE 6,7,8 are not supported). But the realitiy is that over 40% of internet users still using IE 6,7,8 and none of the current live IE versions supports font functionality in CSS3. So how do we overcome this problem if we want to show our users some interesting fonts? SiFR is the right choice!

SiFR package is a combination of SWF files and JavaScript. SWF files control the displaying font. As long as you know how to program flash, you know how to make a font file. The page needs to include libraries of flash and SiFR before calls the SiFR function to enable the none-web-secure font to be shown on your desired places of the web page.

With a large amount of market shares of IE 6,7,8, HTML5 and CSS3 will be hard to take over the internet. In my opinion, HTML5 and CSS3 will give the front end users a better surfing experience but bring more trouble to the web designers and web developers as they need to again make a few more configuration for adapt browsers on top of current multi configuration for multi browsers. I feel that a framework for HTML5 and CSS3 that auto detects browsers and auto loads configurations will be born in a short time period as it will free  developers' mind to focus on logic rather than fundamental settings just like why JQuery and YUI were born.

 September 30th, 2010    All   Database    BigJL    5