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November 2007

"Introducing sIFR"

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WHAT: November PDXUX.Net Meeting

WHEN: Tuesday 11/13/2007
6:30 p.m. Pizza (by White Horse)
7:00 p.m. Presentation

WHERE: Corillian Cafe (Map)
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124

WHO: Scott Vandehey
Scott is a web developer and CSS Ninja working at Pop Art who has been making websites for over ten years. He lives in NE Portland with his wife and baby daughter, and is probably not a Cylon.

TOPIC: Introducing sIFR
Scott will be introducing sIFR 2.0, a method of inserting rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. It is this technology which provides the nice looking custom type headlines you see on sites like Nike, ABCNews, Aston Martin, and others.

And while you are at it, consider visiting our Platinum Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

PADNUG http://www.padnug.org/
Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/
White Horse http://www.whitehorse.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!