When NOT to use sIFR font emedding

11.20.07 Posted in Web Design by Barry

Web​.com have updated their web­site today, imple­ment­ing the much debated sIFR tech­nique to embed their funky font within the design.

While I think sIFR has a place for web design, I think this is a poor imple­men­ta­tion by web​.com, which is backed up dif­fer­ence in appear­ance in my 3 main browsers (on Mac OSX)

Opera 9

Opera

Fire­fox 2

Firefox

Safari 3

Safari

Only Safar3 man­aged to cor­rectly ren­der the jaggy font which is used through­out the web­site, Firefox2 & Opera9 both ren­der it as a green/orange blocky mess. This seri­ously affects not only the design of the site but also the cred­i­bil­ity, and also has SEO impli­ca­tions (although hav­ing a domain name like as web​.com can’t be too much of a bad thing)