{"id":52,"date":"2004-12-05T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:39","slug":"sifr-2-0-release-candidate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/12\/sifr-2-0-release-candidate-2","title":{"rendered":"sIFR 2.0: Release Candidate 2 is Finally Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> Version 2.0 is now available. See article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alright, sIFR Release Candidate 2 is finally here. It’s been exactly two months since Release Candidate 1 and we’re happy to say that things have held up very well so far. Release Candidate 2 fixes a handful of minor issues, and barring any regression behavior which may turn up in RC2 (but probably won’t), we think we have a solid 2.0 release on our hands. Thankfully, we’ve taken care of this before the end of 2004, because according to the 2005 Web Design Forecast<\/a>, sIFR will be a huge part of the emerging typographical landscape in the coming year.<\/p>\n

We couldn’t agree more.<\/p>\n

Before I get into the details of RC2, I just want to thank Mark Wubben<\/a> for a) all the great javascript work he’s done on sIFR, and b) all the helpful support he’s provided to people asking for assistance in the comments. There have been over 700 comments on all sIFR threads so far, and Mark has managed to successfully attend to almost all of them which pertain to javascript or implementation. So once again, thanks Mark for being so helpful, and also for being a genius.<\/p>\n

I also want to thank Danilo Celic<\/a> and Stephanie Sullivan<\/a> of Community MX<\/a> for their help in bringing sIFR to the masses. Check out Danilo’s Breeze Presentation<\/a> for a great overview of sIFR and also a peek at the power of Macromedia Breeze. I love Breeze more every time I see it.<\/p>\n

And finally, two more thank yous. One to Zen Master Dave Shea for his helpful, even-handed, positive review of sIFR<\/a>, and one to Sean Schroeder<\/a> for his beautiful sIFR work on Prosper Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot, Wes Carr<\/a> and the folks at 2Entwine have taken sIFR and expanded it into Fotobuzz.org, a photo annotation engine<\/a>. Instead of replacing text with sIFR, Fotobuzz replaces images for the purpose of annotating them inside Flash. It is really really slick. Make sure and check it out.<\/p>\n

Now… on to the details.<\/p>\n

First of all, to upgrade to sIFR 2.0 RC2, you need only re-export your .swf files and pop in the new sifr.js file. No implementation details have changed. So in other words, upgrading should only take a minute.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we’ve improved\/changed\/fixed:<\/p>\n