Barry Hand » flash fonts http://www.barryhand.ie Analysing Marketing, Social Media & Online Business Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:11:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 When NOT to use sIFR font emedding http://www.barryhand.ie/blog/when-not-to-use-sifr-font-emedding/ http://www.barryhand.ie/blog/when-not-to-use-sifr-font-emedding/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:04:10 +0000 Barry http://www.barryhand.ie/when-not-to-use-sifr-font-emedding/ 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)

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