Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is an open-source JavaScript and Flash technology which replaces HTML text elements with Flash equivalents.
Questions tagged [sifr]
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Web font embedding vs. sifr?
I'd like to use a non-standard web font to improve the appearance of my HTML.
Is it preferable to embed a web font or use something like sifr?
My understanding is sifr is a flash-based viewer for vector fonts but I've been reluctant to try it…
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How to use our custom font on our website
How to use a stylish font on my website that works on all browsers
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Using onRelease with sIFR
How do I catch onclick events in sIFR? I know I'm meant to use onRelease, but can't figure out how. I've been looking high and low for a solution to use it in combination with jQuery ui tabs, which is triggered with this function:
$(function() {
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What are cons to use Cufon? Is sIFR still good option? @font-face doesn't make the letters smooth like they look with cufon or sIFR
What are cons to use Cufon? in term of Web Standards, Accessibility and Performance.
I think if we need smooth text than sIFR is still best with screen reader compatibility.
With @font-face font doesn't look smooth like Cufon and Sifr. but Cufon use…
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sIFR or FLIR?
I've recently bumped into facelift, an alternative to sIFR and I was wondering if those who have experience with both sIFR and FLIR could shed some light on their experience with FLIR.
For those of you who've not yet read about how FLIR does it,…
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Font licensing on the web?
I'd like to do nice typography on the web-- that is, fonts other than the limited set of "web safe" fonts.
Reasonable choices (considering accessibility and SEO) seem to be Cufón or sIFR or maybe @font-face.
Which approach has some blessing from…
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Can I have a horizontal multiple colour gradient on text using CSS3 / HTML 5?
I'm trying to replace a sIFR based flash effect currently used on a website with CSS 3 styling. I have the text gradient effect working well using CSS 3 but the original sIFR implementation had multiple colours rather than just a simple gradient of…
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SIFR Font for Entire Website - Bad idea?
Client wants to use a SIFR font for their entire website. Doesn't seem like a good idea to us. We've used SIFR in the past for headings but never for much more than that.
Anyone have any good technical reasoning or resources describing why this is…
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Does SIFR work well cross-browser?
I have seen a few sites now that use SIFR, and I can see the benefits. I have (quickly) looked into other plugins similar, but SIFR seems to be quite good. So it good in terms of cross-browser compatibility?
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What are cons to use sIFR, in terms of , development time, accessibility, speed and mobile devices?
What are cons to use sIFR, in terms of , development time, accessibility, speed and mobile devices?
Some cons Which i know.
Rendering speed of pages will be slow
because of it use JavaScript and
FLASH both
sIFR text will not be shown in…
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sIFR 3 Uppercase
Can someone please explain how can I implement text-transform: uppercase; feature with sIFR 3?
On the doc, it explains how to use it but I really don't know how to implement it. Can someone provide an example?
Specifes text transformation. This is
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How do I implement jQuery Sifr Plugin properly?
I have been trying all afternoon to get the jQuery Sifr Plugin (http://jquery.thewikies.com/sifr/) to work, without success. The plugin's site has limited documentation and for something so apparently easy, I'm sure I must be nearly there. I also…
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How to get the click event on sIFR embedded tag in IE?
I have implemented Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) to convert text. The issue is, I'm unable to do onClick event over the iSFR embed tags.
$(function() {
$("embed").click(function(){
alert('clicked over embed');
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Developer
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sifr3 - prefetch not working?
I am having a problem with the loading times/size of an sifr 3 enabled site, and found out the the font swf is requested several times in my application. This can be seen in the network tab of firebug, as well as in the apache logs.
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Simon
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sIFR swf implementation problems
I have tried a few methods of sIFR implementations, but I cant get it to work 100%. I would really appreciate any help or tips on this issue.
I have mainly tried to use sIFR 3 (r436) and I get it to work with the rockwell.swf that is supplied in…
Tobias Tuleby