{"id":225,"date":"2006-12-21T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:31","slug":"sifr-3-beta-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/12\/sifr-3-beta-is-here","title":{"rendered":"sIFR 3 Beta Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/images\/inline\/sifr3beta.gif\" width=\"130\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>Just in time for the holidays, the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/textdriveinc\/185251469\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch Wolf<\/a> has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/novemberborn.net\/sifr3\/beta1\" target=\"_blank\">the first official beta of the brand new version of sIFR<\/a>! sIFR 3 is chock full of great new features that are sure to bring out your inner typography genius, and because Flash is now owned by Adobe, we&#8217;ve even created an unimaginative new icon for it! :)<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of sIFR 3 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Much easier implementation with no need for font tuning anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Constant font sizing with no more fuzzy logic used to determine actual type size.<\/li>\n<li>Smoother anti-aliasing and better readability via Flash 8\/9&#8217;s Saffron rendering engine.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to use Flash&#8217;s text effects such as shadowing.<\/li>\n<li>sIFR now renders on-demand instead of after everything else has loaded, making for a much quicker viewing experience.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; and a whole lot more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So head on over to the Dutch Wolf&#8217;s place and <a href=\"http:\/\/novemberborn.net\/sifr3\/beta1\" target=\"_blank\">check out the new beta for yourself<\/a>.  The quicker we can all help squash any remaining bugs, the quicker an official sIFR 3.0 implementation can be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the holidays, the Dutch Wolf has posted the first official beta of the brand new version of sIFR! sIFR 3 is chock full of great new features that are sure to bring out your inner typography genius, and because Flash is now owned by Adobe, we&#8217;ve even created an unimaginative new [&hellip;]<\/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-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}