Our recent project 24sata is living happily and after Vanja’s Two color sIFR and Two color sIFR Take Two articles, it’s now time for me to explain how I managed to position ‘comments’ and ‘read more’ links to bottom of every news preview box, which are all in the same row and of different amount of text within. Continue reading ›

Ed’s note: This is an outdated material. Please visit the article with a new version.

Here again Vanja reloads Two color sIFR technique—better, improved and easier to use. Here’s the article… Continue reading ›

Ed’s note: This is an outdated material. Please visit the article with a new version.

I’m honored to present my fellow colleague Vanja Bertalan to be a guest speaker at my blog. Today’s topic is how to implement two color sIFR, in a way that we did on our recent project, www.24sata.hr. Here’s Vanja’s brief article:

The whole process basically involves 2 things:

• modification of the javascript source file to make it understand that <span class="sifr-alt-color"> has a special meaning
• modification of actionscript source files to handle coloring

sIFR javascript currently understands only <a> and <br> elements within headings, and strips everything else out. I needed additional notation, a marker, that will tell flash to color the text within markers differently. Decision was made to use <span class="sifr-alt-color"> for that purpose. That notation will be transformed to ­ character, before it’s passed to flash. ­ is a character very similar to dash (note the difference between ­ and –—more about en dash). Continue reading ›

I know i’ve been quite mysterious about ‘the new project’ in web.burza. Our contract obligated us not to reveal any details about it in public. Well, today it became public itself—i’m presenting 24sata, new Croatian newspaper’s online counterpart.

Now, be careful with our baby and feel free to report me any trouble you might run into.

Expect more technical report soon : )