Hi,

> sIFR does not break aural readers at all.
> It takes normal HTML and it pushes it into a flash movie (if flash is
> there) and shows it with the flash font.

So we can not count on an exact visual representation - only if flash player 
is installed. What do we gain then? Is the flash player our new dictator 
then? The King IE is dead, long live the King Flash!

OK, this was polemic, but I hope that you can see, what I mean.

The problem sifr tries to solve - display specific fonts on the client if that 
is possible somehow - is different from the problem you try to solve. Your 
problem is the fact, that different browsers have different interpretations 
of the standard documents and some even actively ignore the standards.

You try to solve that by defining one rendering engine that is the rendering 
engine for your page. I whant to read your page, but I can't or don't whant 
to use that specific rendering engine. Ask users to switch to a standard 
compliant browser and use standards wherever possible, but don't force them.

> I think you are assuming that anything at all would break.  I am assuming,
> nothing would break.

Then what is it all about. If you whant to make shure that your page looks 
good in all situations you still have to test with all browsers without 
flash. You even have to test with flash player now, to be shure.

Either you break something or you gain nothing.

Christof

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