sifr vs flir
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- lukus_W0
I think about it in terms of compromise...
1) if dealing with static headings -> produce a proper nice sharp bitmap and use image-replacement
2) if styling dynamic headings, considered use of cufon will often be better than default fonts.
3) choose default font-families carefully to ensure that the fall back is still reasonable.
I know that sifr used to (and may still) have issues with transparent backgrounds -> transparency + flash is not-possible on some systems - so the background would default to block colour... this produced a far worse effect than bad aliasing ever could. And kerning + tracking sometimes seems pretty dodgy with sifr to me.
At the end of the day, not one of these font-replacement technologies can be seen as a silver bullet.