sIFR 2.0
sIFR 2.0 is out! This has been my biggest project in the past months. I’ve spent hours upon hours tweaking and tuning the code to make it as easy to use as possible and to make it work in virtually all browsers out there. It’s been a great experience, and I’ve learned a lot more about providing support, promoting an open source project and (unfortunately) cross-browser issues. Heck, we even got Slashdotted!
During the development I worked closely together with Mike, who is a great guy to work with, he’s smart, pragmatic and he’s showed a lot of patience when we were debugging sIFR via IM. As far as I can tell there’s only one bad thing about him, which is that he’s a bit groggy in the mornings. Since I’m nine hours ahead of him, you can guess what time of the day we usually discussed things…
I’d like to thank everyone who I recruted to test various incarnations of the code, in various browsers. I don’t remember all your names, but you know who you are! In special, though, I’d like to thank Joen Asmussen for his article on sIFR, Andrew Hume for How and when to use sIFR and Stephanie Sullivan, who has been a great help improving the documentation.
And of course a huge thanks to everyone else who used and/or promoted sIFR. Thanks!
Now that we’ve reached the end of the 2.0 cycle, perhaps it’s a good idea to look into the future. I expect sIFR to become a bigger influence in webdesign in the coming months and I hope it’ll accelerate the design of a system which will allow designers to load fonts via CSS. In any case, we’ll make sure sIFR continues to work in future browser versions.
Again, thanks for this wonderful experience.
