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khiva · 2008-05-30 14:37:26

Greetings,

I installed sIFR 3 with a really basic font setup, and it works great in everything tested except IE7, and I just can't figure out what's wrong. The test homepage is located at http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/beta I appreciate any advice!

solum_ipse · 2008-05-30 17:37:38

What's the problem? I don't see any differences between FF and IE7...

khiva · 2008-05-30 17:57:00

I just looked at the site on two other computers using IE7 (definitely that version). One computer displays the headings as they should be, blue with the correct font. The other computer, actually two library terminals, displays the headings as gray in the regular web font. This seems incredibly strange ... any suggestions?

solum_ipse · 2008-05-30 18:20:35

You sure Flash is allowed on those computers? Is the demo working? Your sifr-screen.css and sifr-config.js look fine to me.

khiva · 2008-05-30 18:32:17

I just went and checked a Flash page and that is precisely the problem ... they don't have Flash on those computers. This is my first experience using sIFR so that didn't occur to me. Thanks so much!

arossphoto · 2008-05-30 22:21:56

I'm having similar problems with sifr3 and IE7 on my Windows XP laptop. I have a page with a flash swf slideshow on it and it plays fine, but the sifr3 headlines don't work. I also tested the example pages at the sifr site and they don't work either. FF for Win & Mac, and Safari for Mac are fine. There must be some problem with IE, but I don't know what to do about it.

Any ideas why my flash slideshow would work fine, but the sifr headlines don't?

Thanks,

Andrew

arossphoto · 2008-05-31 15:53:13

I just tested this at a work computer with IE6 and neither my site or the sifr demo page is working. The flash movie on my page works and I went to the adobe flash player site and it says "Version 8,0,22,0 Installed Successfully".

Mark Wubben · 2008-05-31 18:54:11

What does this page say? http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/flashversion.html

arossphoto · 2008-05-31 19:23:22

Mark Wubben wrote:
What does this page say? http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/flashversion.html

"You have Flash player 8.0.22 installed.
This page displays your current Flash player version using Javascript."

Mark Wubben · 2008-06-01 09:57:04

Okay, on this page: http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/svn/t … tion/demo/

Type javascript:sIFR.debug.ua() in the address bar and hit enter. Could you post the alert here? (You can simply copy+paste the mesage using Ctrl+C etc).

Romuba · 2008-06-01 15:57:33

I am very new to sIFR and would love to be able to use it. I have followed the article by Alex Giron but can't get it working. My effort is at http://www.bartwebsites.com/tabs.html and the Heading text should be Zaph Chancery. My sifr-config.js has the following:

Code:

var zaph_chancery = {
      src: 'http://www.bartwebsites.com/flash/zaph_chancery.swf'  

};
 

sIFR.activate(zaph_chancery);
 

sIFR.replace(zaph_chancery, {
      selector: 'h2.cpost-title',
      css: [
      '.sIFR-root { font-size:24px; font-weight:normal; color:#9f0000; }'
      ],
      wmode: 'transparent'

});

Any ideas what I have missed?

arossphoto · 2008-06-01 17:55:10

Mark Wubben wrote:
Okay, on this page: http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/svn/t … tion/demo/

Type javascript:sIFR.debug.ua() in the address bar and hit enter. Could you post the alert here? (You can simply copy+paste the mesage using Ctrl+C etc).

I'm back home now and testing this on my WinXP laptop, and I'm getting some strange, conflicting results.

When I visit http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ it says "You have version 9,0,115,0 installed". I also visited brightcove.com, which is an example site with flash content linked from the adobe site and it seems fine. the SlideShowPro flash movie on my own site also seems to play fine.

However, when I visit http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/flashversion.html it says "You do not have the Flash plugin installed, or your browser does not support Javascript (you should enable it, perhaps?) This page displays your current Flash player version using Javascript."

Then if I visit the demo page in your post above and type "javascript:sIFR.debug.ua()" a window pops up that says "flash verion: 0, flash: false"

I'm confused. Why would one page says I have flash installed and another says I don't, even though most sites I visit with flash content seems to work fine, except for sifr?

Thanks for the help.

Andrew

Last edited by arossphoto (2008-06-01 17:56:25)

Mark Wubben · 2008-06-03 18:15:03

The Flash detection used by SWFObject and sIFR is unable to detect the Flash player. It is quite likely (haven't checked) that the other sites report it by loading a Flash movie, whereas SWFObject detects it using JavaScript.

This problem is due to a bug in the Flash installation, and unfortunately the only recourse is to uninstall Flash using Adobe's uninstaller and the reinstall it.

arossphoto · 2008-08-12 17:51:37

I got side tracked for a few months, but I'm still having problems with my site and Internet Explorer. I just tried it again on a work computer running IE7 and my site headlines don't display. I tried the example page here http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/ and here http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/svn/t … tion/demo/ and they both look fine. However, the sifr headlines on my site don't display at all in IE7, but look fine in Firefox.

I also ran the debug script above and it says " flashVersion: 00009.00000.00124, flash: true

Here's my site if anyone wants to have a look: www.arossphoto.com

I'd like to start using sifr for some more menu items and headlines, but want to make sure it's working properly first.

Thanks,

Andrew

Mark Wubben · 2008-08-13 12:34:47

IE doesn't like comma's before closing curly braces (",}").

Also, you can call sIFR.activate() only once, but you can pass in multiple arguments. So do sIFR.activate(trajan, trajanbold).

Daitoku · 2008-08-17 20:24:15

Mark Wubben wrote:
IE doesn't like comma's before closing curly braces (",}").

The above sentence was exactly what was wrong with my IE rendering. Thank you.

rushy · 2009-06-15 22:10:17

Love this script! Also just want to say that removing the , before closing my curly brackets } also fixed my problem of sifr 3 not displaying in ie7.

Thanks Mark

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