in fixpng.js wrap the script in a function, and call it at the end using window.onload like so:

function fixPNGs(); {

…… pngfix script …..

}

window.onload = fixPNGs();

/* Your PNGfix should now work with sIFR */

Just a side-thought I had while pondering aimlessly.

1. display of transparent background in sIFR that does not show up as a weird green colour in some micro versions of Netscape 7.0 and some Opera browsers.

2. the ability to utilize the print CSS media type and sIFR AND have a transparent background.

3. better text selection abilities.

4. dynamic widths.

5. any chance of making it render faster? The redraw of the page causes a shift unless you use CSS to match the same height of the flash movie. This resulted in VERY LARGE text presentation if flash player is not present as I recall padding and margins of the CSS did not help. (Please contact me if you need a visual explanation.)

6. once the page has rendered and the visitor changed the text-size, ensure that the text inside the flash movie changes accordingly.

7. continue to work with FlashBlock and/or Adblock.

Thanks for this opportunity!

Gill might be onto something but I can see more problems then it would be worth to allow images to be imported in and masked by the text, especially when the like might end up wrapping. I know that flash had some issues with masks being created and modified dynamically early on and not sure that they fixed it so dynamic text can be used as a mask.

At any rate, it might make sense to add in the ability to import a background image. I can’t think of any time that I would personally use this feature but it would be an alternative to using transparent mode in some cases and is easy enough to pull in images to the swf so it might make a good feature. I have had to lay flash over an existing graphic before and for whatever reason used the image itself as the background of the flash then positioned the movie clip over the image.

Probably best to not get to carried away. Before long you’ll find yourself with an overloaded library of action scipt animations and other things to bloat sIFR. Better to just keep it simple and effective.

1) More typography controls

A. Kerning/Letter spacing

I know that you can adjust the letter spacing in the flash file, but in an effort to minimize the number of fonts I avoided this. It would be nice if we could adjust kerning from the .js file.

B. Bold, Italic
Although most font faces come with special fonts for bold and italic, it would be nice to specify such attributes from the .js file.

2) More options for padding
For better or worse (still debating) I’ve created pages that scale, everything uses ems. This made sIFR a challenge because padding has to be specified using pixels. As a result I always had to wrap a text object that I wanted to use sIFR on within a div tag, and then apply padding to the div. Is there a way that we could pass along the unit of measurement (e.g. nPaddingUnit=em)?

3) Resize of window resize
You already mentioned it, but resizing the flash when the window resizes would be awesome. It will make sIFR that much more seamless.