Comments on: sIFR 2.0 RC 3 is Here… Come Get Some

By: Six Apart Redesign — Matt Mullenweg

Six Apart Redesign — Matt Mullenweg — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:03:54 +0000

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By: whereizmymind» Archive du blog » Utiliser des polices “exotiques” sur un site web mÃ©thode 1 : sIFR

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:40:21 +0000

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By: Andrew Hume

Andrew Hume — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I meant to ask Mark this, but how did you manage to cut down on the file size so drastically?

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looking forward to trying it out…

By: Andrew Hume

Andrew Hume — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Right… just downloaded it and worked it out.

And there I was thinking you’d pulled off a masterstroke! :)

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

D’OH! I only just got around to updating to RC2 this very afternoon :)

By: Dustin Diaz

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

Hot Damn. It just keeps getting better.
I’ll wait for the final before it creeps to my website. I love keepin’ up with the updates.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m getting the dreaded green background on any replacement with “transparent” specified for the bgcolor… worked fine with RC1 (haven’t tried RC2, sorry). Firefox 1.0 and IE6 on Windows XP…

I had to revert back to RC1 for the time being…

(Editor’s Note: Transparency has changed slightly from RC1 to RC3… read the readme.txt file for details… it’s basically another parameter to the function now)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah… transparency is done thru the swmode variable… that’s what i get for posting before reading the readme.txt… my bad!

By: SÃ©rgio Jardim

SÃ©rgio Jardim — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sIFR is the most incredible stuff i’ve seen on the web this whole year. It’s a revolutionary step in the way to the future.

Thank you guys for the beautiful work!!

Greetings from Brazil.

By: Florian Idelberger

Florian Idelberger — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Because I like to have my site designs very flexible and with the ability to change everything by loading a new stylesheet, is there an easy way to define the textcolor, backgroundcolor of sifr, normally defined in the replacement calls in a css file, or to define them differently each time a different stylesheet is loaded? (other than writing some bloated php or js workaround. Keeo up the good work!

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Florian – we’ve had to do that on the server side, using some .net code to write the javascript replacement calls at the end of the page (though much the same thing could be sone with PHP, or no doubt ECMAScript).

Perhaps version 2.1 will add the ability to alter the colours in the CSS? Pretty please? :-)

By: Su

Su — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reading the Metafilter comment thread is a bit humorous, however.

Y’know, I haven’t logged in to MeFi in nearly two years, but the idea sprung up in my head the other night to do it, though I haven’t commented or posted or anything. I’m once again reminded why I dropped out.

But as to the announcement: Yay!

By: Joen

Joen — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lovely, if only for the filesize improvement!

I have one beef with it, but I’m not sure whether it’s doable.

I remember that from RC1 to RC2, you magically managed to fix a problem with sIFR links, and scrolling in Firefox — links would require a “double” click to work.

However, it seems that with RC2, and now also this RC3 the same bug appears when the window mode parameter is sat to opaque (wmode=”opaque”). Remove the parameter and everything works again.

It’s a small thing, and I’m not sure if it’s fixable. But in the case that it’s just a few lines of code, here’s my vote.

By: Ben Pickles

Ben Pickles — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The (strangely) intermittent problem of sIFR Flash-content not being displayed in IE seems to have been resolved with RC3. I simply dropped in the new .js file and voila! It appeared on refresh. Great filesize reduction too!