Embedding fonts using SIFR

I've been around on the net since 1995, and have seen at least 3 ways to embed fonts on webpages: The microsoft way, the netscape way and now a cross platform way - SIFR.

As I try to put my threads short, I will just write a way to implement SIFR custom fonts on your website

1. Locate a TTF font you whish to use on your webpage
2. Goto the page which offers to convert the font to a "flash swf font" (used by SIFT):
   http://www.sifrgenerator.com/wizard.html
3. Follow the wizard guide and choose version 2 in the end.
4. Download the SWF file to a path near your website, say in a folder named "fonts"

Now the font is ready, all you need to do now is to try another free service appearing as a plugin for JQUERY - the sIFR plugin!

1. Goto the website http://jquery.thewikies.com/sifr/
2. Download the "Jquery sIFR plugin version 2" All in one.zip file
3. unpack it and follow the guide

To be able to use the font you generated yourself - copy'n'paste the font into the "fonts" directory in the unpacked "all-in-one" zip file.

That's it! :-)

Code snippets - lets unite!!

As I was browsing for some help for doing a simpel task I came across a site which contains Snippets - http://snipplr.com. Wow! That sounded interesting - the snippet I first clicked on was: "Opacity Hack. I was a litle disapointed, not with the snippet in question, but the fact that it was nothing but simpel text...

For years in the back of my head I have had the thought that code snippets should unite! :-) My hopes that snipplr.com was such a united snippet spot was spoiled...

But I tried to write my POWs about snippets - which was not 100% allowed by their comment system, so here goes - a (hopefully) working copy of what I tried to write about snippets standardlization:

Hi, In general I like the Idea of snippets, no doubt about that! But I would love to see some kind of standardilzation of them, preferable in a combination of XML, XSD (schema). You could then transform your XML snippet to what ever purpose you would need it in - say a HTML context. You can validate the input to the snippet using XSD. And some clever programmer might create add-ins for say MS Visual Studio 2008 or other commenly used development tools.
Here is my first thoughts about how it could be put together - based on this snippet for opacity:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<snippets>
  <snippet>
    <name>Opacity hack</name>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <context>CSS</context>
    <template>
      <outputRaw><![CDATA[selector {  filter: alpha(opacity=60); /* MSIE/PC */  -moz-opacity: 0.6; /* Mozilla 1.6 and older */  opacity: 0.6;}]]></outputRaw>
      <output>
        <input id="alpha" type="string" default=".selector" /> {
        filter: alpha(opacity=<input id="opacity" type="int" default="60"/>); /* MSIE/PC */
        -moz-opacity: <eval id="moz-opacity"><![CDATA[opacity/100]]></eval>; /* Mozilla 1.6 and older */
        opacity: <eval id="moz-opacity"><![CDATA[moz-opacity]]></eval>;
        }
      </output>
    </template>
  </snippet>
</snippets>