Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text in 2004
sIFR
2004 August 29th
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) was a dynamic, open source web fonts implementation for JavaScript and Adobe Flash developed by Mike Davidson and improved by Mark Wubben. sIFR functioned by embedding fonts in a Flash element that displayed text, which helped fonts specified in CSS and HTML to display as intended.