{"id":40,"date":"2004-10-05T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:39","slug":"sifr-2-0-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/10\/sifr-2-0-release-candidate","title":{"rendered":"sIFR 2.0: Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Version 2.0 is now available. <a href=\"\/sifr\/\">See article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, we have a solid release candidate!  This evening, I present sIFR 2.0 Release Candidate 1, and unless any major problems are found, this will end up being the exact code in the final release.  I want to thank everyone who has put sIFR through its paces and helped <a href=\"http:\/\/novemberborn.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark<\/a> and me squash bugs and add feature enhancements.  It wasn&#8217;t until I released sIFR that I fully realized the power of open source.  What may have taken months to develop otherwise, instead took only weeks&#8230; and only evenings at that.  I know I still have to create the official sIFR primer and idiotproof instructions, so I&#8217;ll be doing that over the next week or so and monitoring this comment thread for any issues which may arise.  The <a href=\"\/blog\/files\/sifr\/2.0\/sIFR2.0rc1.zip\" target=\"_blank\">download is here<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/blog\/files\/sifr\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">updated example is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And since David Guillory asked, it is indeed pronounced &#8220;siffer&#8221;. Spread the word to the homies.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s new in this release<\/h3>\n<p>Here are some details about sIFR 2.0 RC1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This release was mostly for fine-tuning. The concentration was on stability and reliability.<\/li>\n<li>Proper uppercasing is now supported and it won&#8217;t mistakenly uppercase your URLs in the process. Please note that &#8220;upper&#8221; or &#8220;lower&#8221; are now passed in as the last parameter of the function to induce uppercasing or lowercasing. This is the only change which may affect existing implementations.<\/li>\n<li>Various DOM and speed improvements.<\/li>\n<li>More consistent font sizing.<\/li>\n<li>Support for common usually-escaped characters like &#8220;, &#8216;, &#038;, and %.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic whitespace-stripping, following the same conventions as HTML.<\/li>\n<li>Complete IE 5 Mac compatibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Quick Instructions<\/h3>\n<p>The usage instructions are identical to the previous betas with the exception of the upper\/lowercasing change mentioned above.  Here is what to do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/files\/sifr\/2.0\/sIFR2.0rc1.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download 2.0 Release Candidate<\/a>.  sIFR is licensed free of charge under the standard CC-GNU LGPL.<\/li>\n<li>Get familiar with index.html. That&#8217;s really the only file which contains the things you&#8217;ll need to adapt.  It contains the replace statements at the bottom and the CSS at the top.<\/li>\n<li>To make your own .swf files, simply open up the .fla file in Flash, doubleclick the textbox which is on stage (it takes up the whole stage), and choose your own font from the Properties palette. Then, choose File > Export and you&#8217;re done!<\/li>\n<li>The parameters to use in your replacement functions are explained in the html file. Plug in your parameters and you&#8217;re good to go!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Additional Notes<\/h3>\n<p>You won&#8217;t have to replace any of your existing replace statements (from beta 2) unless they are affected by the upper\/lowercasing change mentioned above.  You need only replace your .js file and your .swf files.  You may notice a slight font sizing difference between the last beta and this release.  This release&#8217;s sizing is more correct and consistent so please roll with the new.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two significant issues I know of which remain unsolved:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Possible weirdness in certain versions of Opera.<\/li>\n<li>Certain typefaces, especially script fonts, may contain characters with non-conventional metrics which can cause clipping of letters in some cases.  An example is a handwriting font (like Cezanne, for instance) where the crossbar on the &#8220;t&#8221; extends far beyond the width of the T.  Sort of like if you were signing your name and you dragged the tail end of the last letter back over the word.  The problem with this sort of font is that Flash is unaware of the stray strokes. The only solution to this, moving forward, is for users to manual adjust the left and right margins in the Formatting palette in Flash if necessary.  I don&#8217;t consider this necessarily &#8220;solving&#8221; the issue, but if you find yourself in this predicament with an ornate script font, give it a try.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, we have a solid release candidate!  This evening, I present sIFR 2.0 Release Candidate 1, and unless any major problems are found, this will end up being the exact code in the final release.  I want to thank everyone who has put sIFR through its paces and helped Mark and me squash bugs and add feature enhancements.  It wasn&#8217;t until I released sIFR that I fully realized the power of open source.  What may have taken months to develop otherwise, instead took only weeks&#8230; and only evenings at that.  IMPORTANT UPDATE: MINOR FIXES HAVE NOW BEEN MADE TO RELEASE CANDIDATE 1. Please re-download&#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-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}