{"id":139,"date":"2005-10-27T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:35","slug":"sifr-3-request-for-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/10\/sifr-3-request-for-requests","title":{"rendered":"sIFR 3: A Request for Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rightinline\" style=\"width: 200px; float: right; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/udub_site.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"display:block; margin-bottom: 5px\" \/>The excellent new sIFR-licious <a href=\"http:\/\/admit.washington.edu\" target=\"_blank\">UW Admissions Site<\/a>, designed and developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurycloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Cloud<\/a>.<\/span>Now that Flash 7 penetration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/software\/player_census\/flashplayer\/version_penetration.html\" target=\"_blank\">well into the 90% range<\/a>, it&#8217;s time to start thinking about version 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/sifr\">sIFR<\/a>. One of the big selling points of sIFR 2 was that it was backwards-compatible with Flash 6, but given the most current Flash adoption numbers, that doesn&#8217;t seem necessary anymore.<\/p>\n<p>SO&#8230; what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novemberborn.net\" target=\"_blank\">The Dutch Wolf<\/a> and I would like to do is provide a new version of sIFR which offers baseline compatibility with Flash 7 and progressive-enhancement for Flash 8.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already come up with a few things we&#8217;d like to add but are requesting feature requests from designers and developers in order to make sure this new version is as complete as possible. Here&#8217;s initial punchlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to display crisper text (especially at small sizes) for people with Flash 8. The Flash 8 Player uses a new anti-aliasing algorithm that now renders Flash text as beautifully as Photoshop does.<\/li>\n<li>More complete text formatting options using Flash&#8217;s CSS support. This includes the ability to color individual spans within a single sIFR file.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to use (and abuse) Flash 8&#8217;s live effects like soft drop shadows behind text.<\/li>\n<li>On-the-fly resizability of sIFR elements when windows are resized.<\/li>\n<li>Actionscript 2 syntax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A major requirement of this release is that it should only take you a minute or two to upgrade any existing sIFR installations, so rest assured that when the new version comes out, it&#8217;ll be a snap to install.<\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;re already talking about sIFR, I wanted to quickly call out some excellent uses of it I&#8217;ve seen over the past few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will Prater and friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurycloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Cloud<\/a> have redesigned the <a href=\"http:\/\/admit.washington.edu\" target=\"_blank\">admissions site<\/a> for my alma-mater, The University of Washington, and it is spectacular. Some of the best use of sIFR I&#8217;ve ever seen and just a fabulous site to boot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevrolet.com\/cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chevrolet.com<\/a> now uses sIFR on almost every page on the site thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-web.com\/about\/contributors\/jim_amos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Amos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campbell-ewald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell-Ewald<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\" target=\"_blank\">Khoi Vinh<\/a> has redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Onion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paragraphny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paragraph<\/a> making subtle and disciplined use of sIFR.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericwebster.net\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Webster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitas.com\" target=\"_blank\">Digitas<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pontiac.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pontiac.com site<\/a> uses sIFR for their mastheads. Pontiac.com is a good example of a Flash-heavy site making smart use of the technology.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t remember who sent me this site (please let me know so I can give you credit) but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propelfitnesswater.com\" target=\"_blank\">Propel Fitness Water<\/a> now makes nice use of sIFR and they even somehow managed to give their sIFR text nice wide kerning. I&#8217;d like to know if that required manual editing of font files. Looks very nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>sIFR also was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Print Magazine<\/a> this month thanks to the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofpretty.com\" target=\"_blank\">Patric King<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So enough of the sIFR lovefest&#8230; let&#8217;s hear some feature requests!<\/p>\n<div class=\"update\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I almost forgot&#8230; well actually I *did* forget&#8230; the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T.com site<\/a> now also uses sIFR, thanks to the great work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesapt.net\" target=\"_blank\">Joe D&#8217;Andrea<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Flash 7 penetration is well into the 90% range, it&#8217;s time to start thinking about version 3 of sIFR. One of the big selling points of sIFR 2 was that it was backwards-compatible with Flash 6, but given the most current Flash adoption numbers, that doesn&#8217;t seem necessary anymore.  SO&#8230; what The Dutch Wolf and I would like to do is provide a new version of sIFR which offers baseline compatibility with Flash 7 and progressive-enhancement for Flash 8&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}