sifr or flir? 55 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Sep 18, 08, 5:46 p.m.

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• joelski

  does anyone have experience using http://facelift.mawhorter.net/

  I am not sure what I should use sifr or flir?

  obviously the advantages of using flir is image replacement rather then flash...but is it buggy on different browsers?

  Sep 18, 08, 5:46 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  never used it, but it looks interesting. the two major differences i see are that this puts the processing on your server vs sifr, which happens on the client side. not sure what sort of issue this is, or what kind of cpu drag this creates. i know generating image stuff can be pretty taxing on the server if load is heavy. also, with sifr, the text is still selectable and you can copy/paste, this is just an image so that's not possible.

  

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  Dog-earSep 18, 08, 8:15 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  sIFR is more sensible imo.

  

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  Dog-earSep 18, 08, 8:21 p.m. – Permalink

• arsyusha

  sifr looks better because it's selectable.

  • but you probably don't need flash installed for flir, which is also good.– arsyusha

  

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  Dog-earSep 18, 08, 8:31 p.m. – Permalink

• 1pxsolid

  That's pretty cool. The benefit over sifr is no flash required. But as said about the text isn't selectable..

  

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  Dog-earSep 18, 08, 9:07 p.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  sIFR3 is quite nice to work with (compared to sIFR2)
  http://novemberborn.net/recent

  but can be funny across browsers and maybe a bit slow for lots of instances. I found it crashed safari when paired with mooTools.

  another option is FIR (I think that's it) where you set the
  background of a text element as image text, then overflow: hidden;
  height and padding-top: equal to image height.
  foolproof full layout control and no javascript to break. no selection though.

  • FIR requires you to make each heading in photoshop. But it gives you full control.– monNom

  

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  Dog-earSep 18, 08, 9:17 p.m. – Permalink