One request: Can you make triple-clicking a line of text highlight the entire thing? Firefox highlights the entire line on triple-click, and IE highlights the entire paragraph.

The Dreamweaver+Flash combo extension extension may come later if I can get around some Mac issues.

I’m excited to begin playing around with the new verions. Keep coding up a storm guys!

Thanks for an amazing bit of coding guys. This truely is a fantastic step in bringing better typography to the web. I’m truely in awe of your skills and ideas.

Cant wait for the final release…

I’m having a problem, tho. I use backgrounds a lot and want to use sWmode, but I’m having problems with it not working. I downloaded RC4 tonight, and updated the syntax in the script call in the footer, but I’m not getting any transparency. Any ideas? Here’s the string I’m using in the footer script (hopefully it posts):

sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:”h1″, sFlashSrc:”scripts/din-medium.swf”, sColor:”#003540″, sLinkColor:”#003540″, sHoverColor:”#003540″, sBgColor:”#FFFFFF”, nPadding : “0,0,20,0”, sCase:”upper”, sWmode:”transparent”}));

Also couldn’t seem to get nPaddingBottom to work either, so I reverted to the older way of writing it. Thanks in advance!

(Editor’s Note: I believe it’s always been like this. Flash movies are independent of each other and so they will always act that way.)

There’s also some new stuff in the wiki which I still need to link to from the front page, but since you can’t download RC4 anymore that’s not much of a problem :)

However, I’ve got one small irritation. When I view my page without and stylesheet, I get the replaced text AND the original text (i.e.two headers). Can the flash replacement be stopped when no stylesheet is used?

(Editor’s Note: Nope. Thankfully Flash on, JS on, and CSS off is an extremely rare scenario… probably one you’ll never run across.)

However, on my wish list, among other things is improved support for em-sized text in IE, since i want to enable user controlled text sizing via browser’s native controls. The trouble is FF and Opera size text correctly, but IE is making it a few percentages larger. When i size with pixels everything is OK, but that is not an option at this point. Do you have any suggestion?

sIFR in IE 5.2.3 (Mac) loads movie for the first replaced element and then hangs with a script error, but this is maybe because of UTF-8 entities which are replacing Croatian characters—č, ć, đ, š and ž.

(Editor’s Note: sIFR relies on pixels so unfortunately ’em’ sizing could never been reliable enough to use. Apologies.)

a bis set up of styles would be

body {
font-size: 76%;
/* font sizing in ems. 60%, 69%, and 76% are appropriate smaller sizes */
}
h1 { font-size: 1.6em; }
h2 { font-size: 1.4em; }
h3 { font-size: 1.2em; }
h4 { font-size: 1.0em; }
h5 { font-size: 0.9em; }
h6 { font-size: 0.8em; }

p {font-size: 1.0em;}

Anyway, on to your questions. Brian, we can’t detect this. And actually, how many people will disable CSS when they are browsing a page?

In reply to Paul Visser, who left a comment in the RC3 thread: I’ve made a user script for Greasemonkey which you can use to disable sIFR. Unfortuantely it’s not a very good idea to detect Flash blockers, as they prefer to stay undetected.

That’s it for now, I’m going to update the wiki with content for this release. And I just heard that Mike has made the download available again. Rock on.