Apply Image Effects Dynamically Without Using Photoshop
swIR uses JavaScript and Flash to dynamically apply visual effects to images on a web page, using a method similar to sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). Probably the most interesting feature of this is the ability to scale an image long with the text. It reportedly crashes Opera, though.
It is also incompatible with other JS libraries like Prototype or MooTools and doesn’t work with hot-linked images (because of security restrictions in Flash), and you can sometimes get a FOUC (flash of unstyled content) when the image loads before JavaScript replaces it.
Given that CSS 3 can already do almost all of these effects, I am eager to explore other possibilities with Flash-based image replacement. While I expect the adoption of CSS 3 enabled browsers to come slowly, I hope the maintainers of this project will not loose interest and keep it alive with fresh ideas that cannot be done with CSS or CSS 3. How about dynamic image composition, or creating interesting button effects with the images?
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
This has been around for awhile now, but I guess not everyone will know about it.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
To bad it crashes on Opera…….I hope there is an alternative