{"id":33,"date":"2004-09-09T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T07:47:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:40","slug":"sifr-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/09\/sifr-update-2","title":{"rendered":"sIFR 2.0 Beta Coming This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Version 2.0 is now available. <a href=\"\/sifr\/\">See article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to go the whole week without giving a quick update on the latest builds of sIFR.  I&#8217;ll be releasing version 2.0b on Sunday and features to look forward to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A completely rewritten set of javascript\/DOM methods which are now object-oriented and fully compatible with XML Strict documents (even when served as application\/xml!), courtesy of The Netherlands&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.dzygn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Wubben<\/a>, brewer of fine javascript. Much more on this to come.<\/li>\n<li>Support for hover colors, multiple links, manual position adjustments, text-centering, and more.<\/li>\n<li>New, smaller .swfs resulting from the use of character subsets.  About half the filesize of version 1.1.4. Along with this font subsetting comes support for international character sets as well.<\/li>\n<li>Quicker text rendering.<\/li>\n<li>Domain-securing of your .swf font files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With contributions coming now from Seattle, Baltimore, Sweden, The Netherlands, and other corners of the world, the task of getting all of components distilled down to a single mechanism is not trivial.  The 2.0b release this weekend will still be a &#8220;developer&#8217;s release&#8221; per se and might not quite be idiotproof yet, but it will contain the same full feature set as the release version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t want to go the whole week without giving a quick update on the latest builds of sIFR.  I&#8217;ll be releasing version 2.0b on Sunday and features to look forward to include:<\/p>\n<p>A completely rewritten set of javascript\/DOM methods which are now object-oriented and fully compatible with XML Strict documents (even when served as application\/xml!), courtesy of the great Mark Wubben, Netherlands&#8217; King of Javascript. Much more on this to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}