Comments on: sIFR 3 Beta Is Here

By: Jason Slade

Jason Slade — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:16:47 +0000

Flash is being recognized, divs are being replaced, but I’m getting a width and a height of 0. When I open firebug and manually edit these atrributes, I get “Rendered with SIFR 3.0” instead of the text that was replaced.

Any thoughts?

By: Bliss

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

Yups, the icon is really wicked!. As for the sIFR, how cool it would be if it supports the gradient etc. styles too! :)

By: Mark Wubben

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

Hi David, thanks for the compliment, I guess :) There is no "user agent string" which is meaningless, I'm checking very specificly for IE/Win. There is not a loop either, but a well-tested way of detecting Flash using JavaScript. The same technique is used by SWFObject. Now, of course there could be something about your setup not detected by the code. Just for comparison, could you verify if this SWFObject example works? I'm not really sure what this has to do with standards.

By: David Mark

David Mark — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have Flash and IE fails to render any of the pretty headlines in the v2 or v3 demos.

This is because your Flash detection script is nonsense. The user agent string is meaningless and it appears that the IE-specific loop that creates ActiveX objects stops counting at 7.

Don’t feel too bad as I’ve seen a lot of broken Flash sites since I uninstalled Flash and re-installed their latest (v9.) But I thought this thing was supposed to be standards-based. (?)

By: Colin

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

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good tutorial on how to create a sIFR SWF file. I've been looking around and can't find any. The best I could find is at ADOBE here and it's from 2005. I tried it and was all happy till I uploaded the SWF file to my server then copied the link and pasted it in my code for my MySpace page. Now all I get is " Rendered with sIFR 3 " . The sIFR SWF files I have from FONTSMACK and other places works fine. Is this because it's the old type of sIFR or did I not creat the sIFR SWF file correctly. I'm on MySpace so can't use js. I know you all hate it and anyone who uses it is an idiot.. blah blah blah, but that's the way it is. I think sIFR is the greatest thing but I want to make my own now. Can anyone help point me in the right direction. http://www.myspace.com/headbangingkitty

By: dexibe

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

this method is very good,but it is do not support the chinese.

By: Mark Wubben

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

Rommil, correct. It'll be there. In fact, some of the ground work has already been laid down in Revision 209.

By: Rommil Santiago

Rommil Santiago — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been following this for a while, and I still strongly feel it should resize when the text on the page is resized. Many people change the font size on their screen – yet the sIFR elements retain their size. All the other accessibility issues pale in comparison to this. There are already ways to detect text resizing via javascript – it isn’t hard to incorporate this into sIFR.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew: It’s definitely not sIFR 3, but I wonder if it’s another Flash element on the page somewhere. For instance, my latest post contains a Flash movie (the mail thing) and that may be causing weirdness for you.

By: Mark Wubben

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

If the headlines are gone, Flash was detected, but the movie didn't properly render. How does the sIFR 3 demo work for you?

By: Andrew

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

The headlines are not rendering in Flash, nor is the plain text visible. Where normally the Agency font Mike uses appears in the headline, with an underline above the date of the post, all I see is the date.

Again, it’s as designed on the individual post page, just missing this on the mikeindustries/blog/ page.

Given that IE6 is still “most popular” (cough, cough) I’m guessing it must be on my side of things, no? But with the latest Flash player installed (multiple reboots since), it’s quite vexing.

By: Mark Wubben

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

Actually Mike is still using 2.0.1. When you say “not coming through”, do you see plain text for the headlines or is the Flash movie not being loaded?

By: Andrew

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

I'm assuming Mike's changed his site to reflect the latest sIFR. In that case, I may have identified a problem - likely on my end. I'm trapped here in a pretty strict IT environment, but the headlines on the /blog/ page are not coming through. They did pre-sFIR 3 last week. I'm on XP Pro/IE 6, and I've got the most recent Flash player. However, they ARE coming through if I go to the post's page (with comments). I thought it odd that there would be a discrepancy like this. (of course it's fine on Firefox, which I loaded via my thumb drive). Here are links to screenshots - if that's helpful. http://www.acflynn.com/images/bloghome.gif http://www.acflynn.com/images/blogpost.gif LOVE the sIFR, though!

By: Vini

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

Wow..! thats just too kool

By: Luis

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

Hey that’s so nice news. I’ve waiting for it eagering.

And I like the logo, but it is obviously inspired by PS CS3 beta isn’t it? hehe

Bye