sIFR - anyone use it? 1616 Responses

Last post: 3 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: May 7, 08, 5:13 p.m.

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• BannedKappa

  Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sca…

  I've seen some nice uses lately, any negatives, anyone use it?

  May 7, 08, 5:13 p.m. – Permalink

• vrmbr

  i am pressing charges..

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:15 p.m. – Permalink

• _eh_

  seems like a terrible hack .

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:16 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Aye, it does the trick - have a Filter, there're a few threads on't subject.

  It's great if you only have a few instances on the page and are not planning on doing anything fancy with JS effects or whatnot.

  Certainly worth having a tinker with.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:16 p.m. – Permalink

• vrmbr

  just don't try to use h1, h2, etc.

  instead use spans or divs with classes.

  as you will see size inconsistencies in some browsers...

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:17 p.m. – Permalink

• Mick

  I know people who use it and big sites that use it. It's uber coo

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:22 p.m. – Permalink

• BannedKappa

  http://www.mikeindustries.com/bl…
  Some of the rendered fonts looks crap...

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:24 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  It's a step up, but I'm still pissed at the whole fucking webdev industry (W3C, Apple, Microsoft, Sun, etc) for not coming up with a decent web typography solution that EVERYONE can use.

  • +n. Where n is the number of hours we've all spent hacking round this problem of getting decent typography onto a screen.– mikotondria31/2

    ..screen.– mikotondria32/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:27 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  i'm gonna use it in a redesign of a site i'm working on...unfortunately i didn't design the site, the client did - so it sucks.

  ...but i'll let you know how it goes :/

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:27 p.m. – Permalink

• welded

  I've used it on a number of projects and it works pretty well. I wouldn't call it a hack because there isn't really an alternative method if you want a very specific font for headlines and the sort.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 5:37 p.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria3

  yeh, similarly, have used it - it's kinda just slightly more complicated than the results it produces, but yeh - if you have gone to the time and trouble of actually designing pages, then it's worth it just to be able to express the concept with the typography of your choice rather than just relying on whatever the end user has in their font folder.
  Like when the fuck was it up to the end user what a design looked like ? Surely that's our job.
  http://www.thesun.co.uk uses it quite effectively on their 2nd+ level pages.
  I used to do something similar, albeit rather hackily before I found sIFR. Worth giving it some time to see if it's for you. Not too many on a page. Never for body text.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 6:41 p.m. – Permalink

• kerus

  at best its a messy hack. sure it degrades well but its still hackish

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 7:19 p.m. – Permalink

• ian00

  be careful using multiple instances of the same class (that you re swapping) on a single page.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 7:33 p.m. – Permalink

• BannedKappa

  It sure beats cutting up gifs for page titles and subtitles.
  It prob opens up a can of worm for clients demanding wanky fonts used in their sites.

  • They will never understand sIFR. Just tell them: if they want flash they can pay for a flash site.– ismith

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 7:36 p.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria3

  It's almost easier to write a php function and just pass it the font size and the text, like <? nice_text('15','Title Text'); ?> if u happen to be using it, then just have it spit out suitably compliant markup with flashvars et al. Not in every case, but it can be a quicker if you find yourself in hot water with it which I have. Entirely due to not reading the sifr readme, but somedays just can't be assed to learn anything new and you just need to bang stuff out and be all right-brained about it. That's my rapidly devaluing 2c about it, anyway.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 7:41 p.m. – Permalink

• rainman

  http://concentric-studio.com/ - uses sIFR for the blue headers and interior black headers. Also check out this list for more examples... http://alphablogdesigns.com/2008…

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 7:53 p.m. – Permalink

• ctcliff

  For managed text (i.e. any text that is pulling from a CMS), flash replacement is really the only viable option for HTML sites (apart from using system fonts, of course).

  For static text (i.e. text that won't change over the life of a site), image replacement is probably preferred - lighter weight, fewer http requests, no JS required, etc.

  

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  Dog-earMay 7, 08, 8:06 p.m. – Permalink