Is the sIFR project dead?

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Published on 2010-05-17T15:43:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 15:50 UTC
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I need to implement a typographic solution, and was about to go the sIFR route, but sIFR 2 is ancient and sIFR 3 doesn't appear to have been worked on in over a year and a half.

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