I've been following sIFR for a while, and had shelved the idea back when I heard about the security flaw found in version 2. However with the release of 3, I'm feeling a bit more confident in rolling out some sites using sIFR for my module titles, header tags, etc.  I've revisited Lee Sykes' sIFR for DNN tutorial, however I'm curious if anyone has recently attempted this and what feedback you could provide.

I've also noticed that there is a jQuery sIFR plugin, however it doesn't seem to be fully developed (no sample code). Maybe this would be a better/easier way to get sIFR to play well?

So, thoughts on sIFR for DNN4/DNN5 sites?

I didn't like sIFR at all in DNN.  It didn't give enough control over the final font size of the replacement, and often due to white space embedded within the font itself, it became seriously too small to read without setting the original no-sIFR font really huge.  I've used cufon and had much better luck with it.  It allows you to set the font size of the replacement font, just has better control.  And it doesn't require a user to have flash installed, it just requires javascript/jscript to work.  It integrated into dnn 5 with no problems.   The only limitation is that it will not work on menu items in dnn nav menu, probably not solpart either, since the menu is rendered using javascript and cufon and sIFR just couldn't touch it, I'm assuming because of the order of the javascript rendering or just the way the menus themselves are rendered.  The hard part is finding fonts that allow embedding on the web without some type of license that costs thousands of dollars, which I think is silly since you can use the same font in an image without that problem; it shouldn't matter how the font is rendered or delivered.  Anyway, the whole digital rights management will probably keep it fairly unpopular unless the totally free fonts available for commercial use expands to include fonts you'd actually want to use on your web page!  But, with the onset of css 3 that will bring with it cross-browser font embedding, maybe those options will open up and we'll have more choices in which fonts are available for embedding at no cost or a cost that is actually reasonable for not just huge corporations but the little guy, too...

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Hi Wells...

Did you see my ramblings on in this thread..? [LINK]

There's a million different ways of doing this, but the links you provide are probably the most sound... I would say, "use sparingly..."

Jon

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