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Updating . . .
Three months down track I am looking back at this article. I think I understand Pariah's explanation about why the RailMagnor site is misbehaving in Safari (I note it hasn't been fixed yet). And certainly WorkflowCreative.com doesn't display the same problem described by suswelter. But whereas with RailMagnor I can select the HTML text, even though it displays in a specialised font (in the way Pariah is describing in this article), all the special font headings on the WorkflowCreative site appear to be non-HTML (ie graphics). Where exactly is the selectable sIFR text on the WorkflowCreative site?
It's the site, not sIFR
Hi, everyone.
In Safari, FireFox (both Mac and Win), and Camino I see the same problems you're seeing--the positioning issues "suswelter" described. They aren't caused by sIFR. Rather they're caused by the CSS positioning of certain elements (independent of the sIFR Flash objects).
The site used to detect the client browser and serve a CSS file modified for the specific user agent. Now, though, I don't see the browser detector running; the code is out of the site templates. I've got an e-mail into my friend who uses the site, informing him of the situation. I hope to dig into that site by this coming weekend and have it fixed for FireFox and Safari (again).
In the meantime, please take a look at my http://www.WorkflowCreative.com. It also uses sIFR (extensively), and is a good example of sIFR working cross browser (it's also proof that, yes, I really can code for all browsers :-). To see exactly what it's doing with sIFR, view the page source. You'll see that nearly all of the graphic-looking text is live sIFR replacements.
Sincerely,
Pariah S. Burke
Looking into Mac-related isues
Hi everyone,
Pariah will be looking into the issues you've reported on. As soon as I have news, I'll post it here!
TerriStone
Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com
Please Update Us!
Sounds from other comments as if Mac users in particular are having problems making this work. It sounds a great tool, so could we please hear back from posters experiencing problems whether they have found a way through, and/or from Terri/Pariah about any updating of this article to overcome Mac issues.
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Sounds like a great solution...
... but it's a mess on my MAC on Safari and Firefox. Pity!
RailMagnor site bug
the sIFR .sef file pushes the div "Guts" down below the left sidebar in Safari & Firefox on a Mac. The subhead of Vigo Gunship 'Decorating the ..." is pushed below the tb shadower in the header, cutting off the botton half of the text, although the header remains on the top of page
When the page originally loads it's fine -- then there's a 'blink' and the page refreshes with the flash sIFR. That when the div "guts" is pushed below all the sidebars to the bottom of the screen -- making it appear that the text and graphics have disappeared.
Check out the revised code in Step 5!
Hi thorg,
See if the updated code in Step 5 works better. Pariah wrote this how-to several weeks ago, and the builds have changed since then.
Let me know, OK?
Terri Stone
Editor in Chief, CreativePro.com
Hang in there
At what point do things seem to go wrong?
Terri Stone
I'm stumped and frustrated...
after all afternoon trying to get this tutorial working, I'm angered that I cannot figure this out. The source code from the demo/index.html page is far more more advanced and complicated than the code in the above tutorial. This is demoralizing my esteem to graduate to intermediate levels of know-how.... *sigh*.
–t