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Introducing swfIR

Mar 2, 10:56 AM

Mike Davidson is squealing like a little girl right now... delighted by the emergence of a new image replacement technique and JavaScript framework that makes it easy to do stuff to the images on your webpage dynamically using flash instead of applying borders, dropshadows, rotations etc. in photoshop before deploying 'em on your site.

Why's Mike so happy about this? Well... imitation is a pretty potent form of flattery, and swfIR is certainly an imitation of ideas and techniques first developed and popularized by Mr. Davidson and Shaun Inman with sIfR, the text replacement gee-gaw I use on my blog here to dynamically render various headings in the lovely Futura typeface. But really, Mike's happy because this new technology is not entirely standards-compliant. As he says in his posting:

I can hear screams coming from the ivory towers where the validatorians and standardistas live. I like those screams. I live for those screams. I will sleep well tonight with thoughts of prettier imagery on the web.

For the backstory on Mike D. vs. Standardistas and rigid insistence upon markup validation, click here.

 

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