A project that I am working on uses the font Creative Block BB for its headlines. I use sIFR for these situations. Unfortunately sIFR3r278 won’t work with Creative Block BB. I have tried creating the swf file from Flash Pro CS3 and from OpensIFR, neither work. More exactly, both encode the swf fine (OpensIFR with a reduced font set) but don’t work within a web page. I have tried other fonts, they work fine.

After a bit more testing I have found that Creative Block BB will render with sIFR2.0.3 but only when the swf file is encoded with OpensIFR. The solution is only partial though because Creative Block BB can’t be encoded with a space character, thus the rendered text doesn’t have a space. This is no good. If I had Fontographer or other font creating software and knew how to use it, I would try adding the space character to the font. I guess it is time to find another font.

I don’t do much video stuff, but this post on streaming FLVs via PHP at FlashGuru seems like it could be pretty handy. If you are encoding a video into an FLV, the word on the street is that Sorenson Media’s Squeeze for Flash is the best encoder.

Unobtrusive JavaScript, CSS, Flash typography  has been around for a while and is equally important as swfIR if not more so.

I’ve been thinking recently of how to rotate an image with javascript. I haven’t researched it too deeply and have not figured anything out. But then today came along a great stopgap. Use unobtrusive javascript and flash. Wow. This is a great idea!