Hi Martina - I wrote an article on the downsides of using sIFR (even for headlines). Please have a look as its use poses both accessibility and usability challenges.
http://www.likewowonline.net/web/ued/sifr-usability-study.html As for future support? At the moment there are two competing proposals for supporting non-system fonts on the web: CSS3's @font directive and Microsoft's proprietary EOT. Both of those will only be available in browser's that support them. Considering the amount of time it takes us to safely assume a majority of the world has upgraded to a particular browser version I would say we're 5 years off for full support and 2-3 years off for practical progressive enhancement. Sitepoint has a good breakdown of the issue as well: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/30/custom-web-fonts-pick-your-poison/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38387 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
