sIFR and Eolas, Testing the Patching

posted May 11th, 2006, 4 comments, tagged

While working with Microsoft to fix the mentioned problems with sIFR and the Eolas patch (the security updates for Internet Explorer released on April 11th) I’ve also been working on a patch for sIFR itself. But before I get to that, some updates on the problem:

  • Everyone who reported the problem and whom I have asked to verify, is using either Flash MX 2004 or the Flash 8 editor.
  • This might mean that the problem is related to the editor being installed
  • Or only people with the editor take the trouble to contact me.
  • Reinstalling Flash fixes the issue.
  • Using <object> instead of <embed> prevents the issue.

It still is not clear what the exact conditions are for the problem to occur, but most likely it’ll be solved when people update their Flash players… in a few years, that is. Therefore, the patch to sIFR.

This patch, bringing sIFR to version 2.0.2 has the following fixes:

  • Problems due to the Eolas related modifications to IE should be solved. Thanks to Christian Welzel for testing!
  • A problem where the CSS class name foo-bar would match foo has been solved.
  • Problems where the browser reports an alien user agent (like GoogleBot) have been solved.
  • Improper detection of Flash transparency support in OmniWeb 5.1 have been solved.
  • You should now be able to export sIFR as Flash 8.

A test version of the patch is available: Download sIFR 2.0.2 TEST.

Please let me know how this version functions. Nothing should be broken in other browsers, but of course you never know. Once I’ve had enough feedback I’ll officially release the patch.

sIFR 2.0.2 is out now

4 responses

  1. Mike D. says:
    May 11, 2006 at 20:44

    Sounds good. We should also roll Trovster’s AdBlock patch into this release.

  2. 3stripe says:
    May 15, 2006 at 16:13

    Great stuff.

    I’ve been pondering over a question – maybe you can advise….

    What if I want to serve a Flash 8 swf with the correct plugin…. but serve an older swf for those with Flash 7 capabilities? Is this possible using javascript?

    Not being a programmer myself I’m a bit stuck on this one!

    Cheers,

    3stripe.

  3. Mark Wubben says:
    May 15, 2006 at 18:00

    That’s coming in sIFR 3.

  4. 3stripe says:
    May 22, 2006 at 08:41

    Excellent. Later this summer maybe from what I’v read elsewhere?