Obviously its not a problem on fixed width sites, but for those of us creating liquid ones…

Can you have links be underlined? So far nothing is working (CSS-wise)… changing color on hover works, but the whole underline action is not happening.

Any thoughs, anyone?

Not having a copy of Flaxh MX myself, I’d like to hear the answer to this too. I tried using flashtools’ font2swf program, but the resulting swf file didn’t work when I replaced the demo font swf.

If anyone has had success with the flashtools for this purpose, please let us know.

Here’s my question: can any of the programs that are part of the SWFTOOLS package be used in place of Flash? I have no problem with Macromedia as a company, and wish them success, but I’m also interested in knowing how many tools are available to me. If SWFTOOLS works with sIFR I’d love to know about it.

I really don’t have any javascript knowledge, so im hoping you’d be able to help me with this… Is there a way to pass the font-color and background color to TJ replaceElement from the Original CSS? I believe this is possible since you were able to get the name of the elements to be replaced (at least that’s what i was thinking?). If this is already existing, could i get instructions how?

Another thing, since you’re accepting requests for features (one is wahat i have above)… would it be too much if there’s 2 flash files… one, the code; the other would be the font? and then the 1st one would call the 2nd flash file depending on the font coded in the css…

so this could be…
h1 { font-family: CustomFont, Tahoma, san-serif; }

if the font is present in the user’s machine, then dont use sIFR, else, get the flash and use sIFR… Plus we could place a whole database of embedded font for variations but using only one flash-file for the code…

also, passing a value for the horizontal alignment of the flash file (or , again, is this already existing and i just don’t have a clue how to use it?) from the css code…

hope these are relevant features… thanks again.

I really hate it when people like you, developing free ideas and techniques for the good of the web community, and with no direct commercial benefit to themselves, don’t meet their release dates.

Take a leaf out of Microsoft’s book for pete’s sake!

;)

the script doesnt work when feeding the page as application/xhtml+xml. i tried 1.1.3 first and updated to 1.1.4 a while ago, dont know if the .js has been updated tho, still says 1.1.3 in the header. .

I find this is a bug in your script or the script is make to hide for Opera. What is to do?

1. A few people have asked me about using separate files to embed the font. The thing about it is, that’s pretty much already what’s happening. The .swf file is so light that it’s really just one frame of actionscript plus the font. Hence, the situation is pretty much already as you describe it: each file can contain a different font and you can pick which one to embed in the page at run-time. There’s no way around the issue of not having Flash MX though, obviously. You need to – by design – have Flash and the appropriate font on your system to export the .swf out.

2. With regards to the font size issue, this has been dealt with in the newest builds (unreleased). Instead of scaling down, I’m now scaling up which is a lot easier on the processor and a lot quicker, especially when you’re replacing paragraphs and other large areas of text. The scaling never really takes more than a tenth of a second, so it’s pretty much a non-issue now.

Thanks very much for the suggestions and I think you’ll really like the new release when it’s ready. There are so many improvements that it’s going to be a 2.0 release rather than a 1.2… if that means anything. :)

My intial thought was the fact that i could use my own typeface and have it be seen consistently by those with flash. The other thought was that i could specify the sizes to make good looking large text.

On my computer at home I do not have a version of flash mx – which makes life tough to play around with changing fonts and sizes.

The conclusion i came up with – Although i haven’t been able to test yet, I am pretty sure that a file could have the font embedded and exported, then imported at run time into the sIFR file. This would enable uses to create seperate files for various fonts, and use a style switcher to tell the sIFR what font .swf to import and display.

Secondly, it would be nice to be able to control the font sizes out of flash for faster updates. Any thought to including the font size variable in the .js file and then having flash use that to calculate its text size?

Other benefits would include php to dynamically change that font size depending on styles or string length.

Although the simplicity of fewer files would appeal to some – for ultimate configurability perhaps this could be a worthwhile experiment.

An issue I’m having (in Safari at least) is that on certain occasions it will add an extra blank line when text spans the entire width of a column. Certainly, when I either add or subtract a word no extra blank line appears at the end.