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Cross Browser Testing

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I recently started using a new service called CrossBrowserTesting, and it’s so incredibly awesome I felt compelled to write a review.  First some background… Browser compatibility is a difficult challenge for all web designers and developers.  The process of debugging HTML, CSS, or Javascript problems that only occur on specific platforms is both tedious and frustrating.  At Sitening we run either Parallels or VMWare on our laptops so we can launch Windows and test the sites we’re working on.  Unfortunately, this is a time-consuming process, and the results are often suspect.  While it is possible to install multiple versions of IE, ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2578/cross-browser-testing

A Third (Smaller) Option for Embedding Flash Using JavaScript

Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there’s a third viable option for embedding Flash using JavaScript. It’s called FlashReplace and was written by Robert Nyman. The unique feature of FlashReplace is its size. Compared to SWFObject, it’s about three times smaller, and compared to UFO, it’s about five times smaller. Instructions are available on the main FlashReplace page.

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2851/a-third-smaller-option-for-embedding-flash-using-javascript

sIFR 3 Beta is Getting Closer to its Final Release

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Mark Wubben announced on Wednesday (December 26, 2007) that sIFR was getting closer to its final release. In a message to all of the developers and beta testers, he said: Good news, I’m running out of bugs to fix. Pretty much the only thing left to do is support page zoom in Firefox 3, IE 7 and Opera. I believe page zoom is the future, as opposed to font resizing, and therefore font resizing won’t be supported. As of right now, the latest version is 350. If you could have a look and test it on your sites, that’d be great. You can ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/449/sifr-3-beta-is-getting-closer-to-its-final-release

New Flash Player Breaks sIFR

Friday, December 14th, 2007
Adobe’s new Flash Player (version 9,0,115,0) does not work with earlier versions of sIFR 2. Mark Wubben, the current maintainer of the sIFR code, sent out an alert early this morning notifying everyone on the sIFR developer list. The problem arises when a designer has specified a hover color to a link. If they have, it breaks. Mark wrote the following to everyone on the list: sIFR 2’s links do not work with the new Flash Player 9,0,115,0 if a hover color is specified. This has been resolved in sIFR 2.0.4. If you use sIFR 2.0.3 and have a hover color specified ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/445/new-flash-player-breaks-sifr

SEO for Images, sIFR Conversion Tool and a New Way to Make Multi-Column Layouts

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
There’s a lot of interesting news hanging out in my newsreader this morning. These were the most notable: Optimize Your Site for Google Image Search In SEO you generally don’t think about optimizing images, but that’s not the case when you consider the traffic you can get from Google Image Search. creativebits offered some excellent advice on how to optimize your images for Google Image Search. Most importantly enable enhanced image search in google sitemasters tools. Find it under Diagnostics / Tools / Enhanced Image Search Give meaningful names to your images. picture1.jpg will not do. GreenSeaTurtle.jpg is much better. Give long description tags to ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2729/seo-for-images-sifr-conversion-tool-and-a-new-way-to-make-multi-column-layouts

Linked Images in Flash: How-to for the Non-Programmer

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
So, you designed some totally sweet Flash movie and then the client says, “but I want to be able to switch out those images whenever I feel like it.” Do you: throw a freakin’ hissy a la Naomi Campbell give up and watch some more YouTube put on your big girl panties and figure out how to do it While all of those are perfectly viable options, I’ll focus on #3. Step 1 Go ahead and design your Flash movie with imported, embedded pictures. You’ll eventually be deleting the embedded pictures because you won’t need them, but when images are linked Flash will only show you ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3022/linked-images-in-flash-how-to-for-the-non-programmer

Latest Revision to sIFR 3 Supports Pixel Fonts

Friday, January 19th, 2007
Mark Wubben just announced the release of sIFR 3 Revision 209. This revision includes the following new features: Support for pixel fonts through the pixelFont argument. See JavaScript Methods: replace. A way to stop the page jumps by specifying the ratios argument. (More about ratios). See JavaScript Methods: replace. Support for fixed font sizes and sizes relative to the main size, see font-size in Styling. Simplification in the API, you can now pre-fetch by passing the movies to activate() instead of prefetch(). See the How to use. Improved pre-fetch code for Internet Explorer. Laid groundwork to communicate with the Flash movies. Pixel Fonts & sIFR I’m particularly interested ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2717/latest-revision-to-sifr-3-supports-pixel-fonts

Howto Embed Flash Using JavaScript

Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Back in March of 2006 Tyler Hall wrote an entry titled, “The Internet Will End on April 11.” In it he wrote: The changes to Internet Explorer will require web developers to completely rewrite the way they use embedded content across all of their websites. Once the update ships on April 11, websites which have not updated their code won’t display the content correctly until users manually click and activate each instance on the page individually, every time they view the page. Ouch. The Internet didn’t end, but things did get uglier. When you view Flash content in IE6 or IE7 that ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2714/howto-embed-flash-using-javascript

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