Updated “Styleswitcher”
January 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
One of the most-read pages on this site is my Styleswitcher, and despite that I carelessly let it become broken. It’s now fixed.
sIFR is a method to insert actual fonts into a web page. Not just the handful of system fonts that are available across all platforms, but any font that the designer owns on their own system. By creating a Flash movie that embeds it, any text can be made to appear in that style on the end-users’ screens.
The old sIFR script didn’t recognize versions that had two decimal places, so once the standard-issue Flash player got updated past version 9, to version 10, it stopped working. Updating to version 2.0.7 of sIFR seems to have done the trick (at least, for the most part, and for now). I took the opportunity to clean up the display a little, making it more legible and intuitive.
Perhaps now that it works it will be even more useful (oh, the irony).
sIFR is a method to insert actual fonts into a web page. Not just the handful of system fonts that are available across all platforms, but any font that the designer owns on their own system. By creating a Flash movie that embeds it, any text can be made to appear in that style on the end-users’ screens.
Tags: fonts, sIFR, Typography
