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By: sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement : ofigura

sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement : ofigura — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:44:56 +0000

[...] (26.08.06): Ã“timas notÃcias, o Mike Davidson divulgou o lanÃ§amento do sIFR 3.0 alpha, uma das novidades Ã© a possibilidade de se utilizar filtros do Flash 8. Se vocÃª quiser testar, [...]

By: Erick Souza » Blog Archive » sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

Erick Souza » Blog Archive » sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:57:54 +0000

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

More options. Easier configuration. Shadows. Woo. Way to go guys :)
Indeed, nothing has happened these last few years. But you did you expect anything? You’re the kind of guy that either the IE team or Mozilla team needs to hire to get support for this kind of stuff.

By: Alexis Gallisa

Alexis Gallisa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another nice thing about the sIFR 3 code is the use of different versions of flash. You can serve up a “low src” version for flash 7 users and a much nicer “high src” version for those who have upgraded to flash 8.

By: Remi

Remi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You guys rock :)

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah a nice update to the code. Very nice Mike. Will give it a tester after the football!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Supporting Flash 8′s new font engine with downgradable Flash 7 is just great, thanks guys!

By: Dan Mall

Dan Mall — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well done, gents! The addition of leading alone makes version 3 a 100% improvement. Will version 4 write copy for us too?

By: Mark Wubben

Mark Wubben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sIFR-Headline-O-Generator, fun!

By: Baxter

Baxter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to come up with something more insightful than “hot diggity,” but I’m drawing a blank. I’ve been using sifr since the very first releases, and will absolutely go download the nightlies.

(Blogs nobody comes to are excellent for testing things)

By: Rob Wilmshurst

Rob Wilmshurst — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll second the hot-diggity comment!

SIFR is a wonderful innovation and whilst the ‘official’ web typography standardisation process might be stagnating (I’m not sure on the limitations etc so I’ll stay quiet on this) its becoming a standard through usage. I just noticed Sky TV have picked it up too.

Good work! I’ll start playing with v3 in the morning.

By: Ryan Guill

Ryan Guill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is great! This is the pefect software to solve this problem, and not only that but gives you great ability as well, not to mention degrades nicely.

btw, whats stopping the browser makers and the w3c from putting out a standard that allows us to embed fonts like we embed images into a page? sure, they could be a hefty download sometimes, but with caching and the high speed modems most of us are enjoying it shouldnt be too bad… and if copyright protection is the issue, maybe the font gets put in a browser cache somewhere that it cant get back out…

I dont follow these discussions like you mentioned above so forgive me if this is what is already being talked about.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to find sites to load up with sIFR all week. Easy to do when your pumping out a couple sites a week. I will share the URL’s with you as soon as any of these sites go live.

There seems to be an issue recognizing the mouse-off on this demo page. Perhaps it’s just on my end. I look forward to giving v3 a better look later this week. For now I’ll stick with 2.0.2

Note: Consistent sizing of fonts would be my #1 favorite feature for sure! The v2′s are like an awkward balancing act between IE and FF.. Still a good solution though. :-D

Final note: Microsoft IE Eolas update, I assume this is the neat new feature that causes flash to be inactive until clicked upon. I would like the find the people who forced MS to add these junk and say unpleasant things to them. Then I want to shake my head knowingly in shame at the MS guys who couldn’t think of a better solution then “click to activate” appearing out of the blue on new IE6 revisions. I think aside from more transparent security updates this counts as their first real feature update to the browser since NS4 first came out. I’m not a Microsoft basher but they failed us big time with IE 5-6. This Eolas junk is just absurd!

Oh yeah, have I mention sIFR is neato?

By: Mark Wubben

Mark Wubben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Colin, yeah, the link issue is known to me. Not sure what is causing it, though.

By: Bob Everland

Bob Everland — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What’s been the issue with the latest Firefox? I’m not getting SIFR or your flash at the top to come through?