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2 posts in May - 2006

sIFR 3.0 Alpha Released

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:11:31 AM by Stephanie

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For those of you that have been following the development of, or even using sIFR, this post is for you. Mark Wubben has announced the release of the alpha of the next version of sIFR. I just got back from TODCon, so I haven't had time to play with it yet, but the feature list makes it look very promising. Especially the part about the increased simplicity of tuning your fonts. For me that was the only difficult part.

Other interesting bits -- Mark is taking advantage of the new Flash 8 filter features, like drop shadows. You'll also get the added benefit of Flash's new anti-aliasing and leading. There's also a fix included for the AdBlock issue. All in all, very promising.

If you've got time to test/play/help make this version the best it can be, head over to the sIFR 3 Alpha page and download it now.

Category tags: Accessibility, CSS, Designing for the Web, Dreamweaver, Flash, JavaScript

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MacIE bug with Leahy/Langridge image replacement

Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:57:40 PM by Zoe Gillenwater

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I made a discovery today: the Leahy/Langridge image replacement method doesn't work in MacIE when applied to a div. It only works when applied to an element such as h1 or p. When it's applied to a div, the text is not covered up and the background image is cropped horizontally. To work around this, always wrap the text to be replaced in the proper semantic element instead of just plopping it into a div naked (which we should all be doing anyway), then apply the image replacement to the semantic element. I couldn't find any other mentions of this bug out there on the web, so I hope this tip helps you make better use of Leahy/Langridge image replacement.

Category tags: CSS, Mac

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2 posts in May - 2006