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swfIR is a new progressive enhancement technique utilising JavaScript and Flash to give you an assortment of visual effects to apply to any or all images on your website. It scans through your page and adds some new flavour to standard image styling.
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts.
I enjoy playing around in Photoshop so it’s probably something I wouldn’t use on my personal sites but I can certainly see the advantage of using this on a clients site to embellish images uploaded through a CMS. Not only is it simple to use, but it’s also simple to deploy.
It’ll be very interesting to see how this develops and what new effects are added to the tool.
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Paul
February 28th, 2007 at 12:32 am
I guess this is a natural extension of sIFR. Could be interesting but fear it may be used for unnecessary eye candy.
At least with the sIFR it’s addressing the very real restriction of typographic choice when it comes to basic system fonts.
Steven Tew
February 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Hmmm - I can see it now…. site upon site upon site all with exactly the same image embelishments. I wonder if the effects can be easily customised.