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Contribute to sIFR Module
February 16, 2006
At DrupalCon in Vancouver last week, I spoke to Boris Mann and Moshe Weitzman from Bryght about creating a sIFR module for Drupal. If you haven't used sIFR before, it is a great design tool that makes standards-compliant cross-platform downloadable web fonts a reality. We've used the technology on some of the sites we've made and Boris points to Typofile as a great example of sIFR used with Drupal.
Previously sIFR needed to be hard-coded into Drupal themes and took a long time to set up. The sIFR module will make it easy to upload new font files target page elements using simple CSS selectors.
I've started coding, but we're still hoping to raise some funds for this project. To this end Boris has posted a reverse bounty on Drupal.org. Contributors to the project will be listed in the README file and have the warm feeling that comes from improving Drupal's design tools.
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Typophile
Typophile and sIFR are both fantastic, and both something I use almost daily, but as far as I know Typophile doesn't use sIFR:
http://www.typophile.com/node/16696#comment-99287
(Sorry for being a pedant.)
As a designer I loved it. It
As a designer I loved it. It just cheered me up Stylistically it's beautiful and it's definately something I
haven't seen before. I hope it can eventually function a little better without sacrificing its visual flavor.
Nice and smooth artwork.
HTML, CSS and DRUPAL
I agree with the above poster – really nice looking stylistically. I've still got to get into Drupal as I've been coding CSS and HTML but am now looking for a viable CSS. The only problem is that I don't know if I can easily port my CSS and HTML into Drupal easily, or if there will be a hectic lot of PHP I'm going to have to learn. PHP looks a little more complicated that HTML, and it seems difficult to find any template that's going to work.
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