sIFR - anyone use it? 1616 Responses

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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

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