sIFR degrades gracefully and is accessible. I recommend that you read up on sIFR before recoiling in "no, it's FLASH!" horror. And yes, typography is important in design.
I never said it wasn't accessible or that it doesn't degrade gracefully. I did read the links provided on sIFR.
My points remain. An image would degrade just as gracefully and be just as accessible. And graceful degradation/accessibility seem to be answering the UI question for older browsers. What about current browsers? Since I have flash installed, the title is rendered using flash and now I can't resize/select the title. In this case, the "degraded" version seems like a step up.
Finally, yes, I know that typography is important in design. I was just wondering at what cost.
Yes, the image would work just as well. Now try generating that image on the fly for 1000 product pages, for instance. sIFR draws content from HTML, making it far more flexible. I very easily implemented Trajan Pro product titles for an artist's website for around 400 products, and this would have been prohibitively tedious if I were using images.
As for your resizing concern, sIFR should only be used for headlines. Typically, everyone can read text in that size (body copy may require resizing, but only a fool would run blocks of text through sIFR).
