Firefox and Opera now both render SVG natively(with Safari following soon) and so can Flash with libraries. sIFR currently requires the Flash authoring tool, where as if you used SVG it would be supporting standards, and allow you to use it, even if you don’t have a copy of Flash.

It’s probably a bit of a pipe dream because the difficulty level is significantly higher, but for SVG enabled browsers, the experience would be much better.

Thanks.

Thanks – a bit overwhelming as I’ve never used any of those tools or enviornments before, but it definitely looks like it can be done.

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That’s awesome – I actually just used sIFR for the first time the other day and was very impressed – I can’t believe I took so long to give it a shot. I think I was a bit wary of the Flash.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials that show how to use sIFR without the actual Flash application? That’s the biggest setback at the moment that I see – I can put in a PO for it at work if I can convince them of the benefits of sIFR, but Flash isn’t cheap to purchase personally either….

sIFR is great, but there will always be some problems inherant to using a plugin, that you’ve documented. Copy & pasting chunks of text, will always be fiddly. SVG would work inline in the HTML as if it was just plaintext. Basically, using SVG would be one step closer to native font embedding.

I’m not suggesting an SVG only solution. Merely a solution with SVG at it’s base. Flash can read the SVG if the browser doesn’t support it natively.

JesterXL – that is true allright about those apps.

Mark – I’m not quite sure I understand you. SVG can handle font embedding. It’s designed to be able to render fonts.

As I said, it probably is a pipe dream :o)