Few Changes

09 Apr 2008

Well its been quite a while since updates , ive been busy . Due to very few tutorial updates , i have decided to change the theme a little . Ive added sIFR to the post headings and sidebar headings.

So what’s sIFR , well its basically a browser text replacement script. It is used to replace all those dull fonts that are what i say ” Universally Lame ” . sIFR is and abbreviation of (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) , it uses flash to replace the text with flash using javascript.

Some details about sIFR .

According to Mike Davidson the mind behind sIFR

How sIFR it works
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. Here is the entire process:

A normal (X)HTML page is loaded into the browser.

A javascript function is run which first checks that Flash is installed and then looks for whatever tags, ids, or classes you designate.

If Flash isn’t installed (or obviously if javascript is turned off), the (X)HTML page displays as normal and nothing further occurs. If Flash is installed, javascript traverses through the source of your page measuring each element you’ve designated as something you’d like “sIFRed”.

Once measured, the script creates Flash movies of the same dimensions and overlays them on top of the original elements, pumping the original browser text in as a Flash variable.

Actionscript inside of each Flash file then draws that text in your chosen typeface at a 6 point size and scales it up until it fits snugly inside the Flash movie.

So sIRF aside , ive added a little bar well not a little but a huge bar you may be blind if you cant see a huge black bar with search and subscribe written on it :p.