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Facelift mentioned in print

February 1st, 2010

FLIR has recently been mentioned in a book by author Allan Walker entitled Joomla 1.5: Multimedia. This is a first for the project as far as I know, so I thought it was worth noting. Cool stuff! In other news, I discovered that Rackspace’s cloud hosting site has a nice use of Facelift. It looks so nice that I almost paid for some service right there!

About Joomla 1.5: Multimedia

Joomla! is a content management system designed to organize and deliver content within a web site environment. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options, but it requires discipline and knowledge to utilize it effectively so that we do not alienate our audiences. If you want to display more than just text on your Joomla! pages, this book has been designed for you and is a must-read. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage this powerful CMS structure to deliver media-rich web content to your site users.

Click through for the relevant page.

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Facelift 2.0 beta 3 released

October 20th, 2009

Facelift 2.0 beta 3 has just been released and is available at http://facelift.mawhorter.net/download/

UPDATE: If you are experiencing problems with utf-8/anything-that-isn’t-iso-8859-1: Be sure your character set is being properly set. That means the Content-type header and the content-type in the <head>.

» Read more: Facelift 2.0 beta 3 released

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Facelift v.2.0 beta 1 released–finally!

April 20th, 2009

I know I’ve been dragging my feet a bit on this one but it is for good reason! I swear! I have been busy traveling and working on my other site Border Hopping.com (shameless plug! ;p)

Facelift 2.0 is finally here in the form of a beta.

There are several enhancements that I briefly want to go over here. Better documentation in the form of a wiki is coming too!

Download Now! And report all bugs to the forums!

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Facelift update: New version due out after new year

December 18th, 2008

It has been a while since the last post about Facelift and I wanted to let everyone know that Facelift is still very much an active project.

The next version will be v1.3 and contain a handful of updates and fixes. I’m don’t have an exact date when it will be released but it should be sometime after the new year.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the project and as always, you can visit the forums for help, comments, or suggestions!

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Facelift v1.2 beta 4 has been Released

September 10th, 2008

I was all set to release the final v1.2 but instead I went crazy and added a bunch of new functionality. So, I am releasing v1.2 beta 4.

Font Collections
Basic Callback Functions
Better error handling
Bug in generateURL causing HTML not to be sanitized
Added functionality/bug fixes for “wrap” mode. Better line-height support.
Rewrote element replacement algorithm. You no longer need to encapsulate plain text in span elements to have it replaced. The new algo is recursive so it can replace any number of child elements. You could even run it on document.body if you wanted to!
Added flir-image and flir-span classnames to the elements flir creates
Javascript Plugin support!
Moved DetectImageState code from facelift.js into a Javascript plugin
querySelectorAll support for the browsers that support it (Safari, FF3.1 alpha)
Font size modifier for cSize in FLIRStyle. You can now specify a font size calculation to be applied against the CSS font size. For example, if you want the generated image to have a font size that is 140% the one you specified in your CSS you could do cSize:’*1.4′. All font sizes will then be multipled by 1.4.
FLIRStyle.buildURL no longer requires an HTML object to be passed
Hover caching problems fixed. Better hover style support.
JPG and GIF support! Set the “output” option in FLIRStyle. The default output option is auto. Auto will cause the generated image to be a transparent png if the element doesn’t have a background color set. Otherwise it will use GIF.
Hover now only works with <A> elements.

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facelift Image Replacement v1.0 is now available.

July 4th, 2008

Facelift started as a test project to replace email addresses in web pages with image representations to prevent spam. It worked, but I lost interest in it and it sat on my hard drive collecting dust.

And that is where it stayed until just recently when I remembered it was there, and realized that it could be used for much more.

I rewrote everything from the ground up and added in many additional features and decided to release it to the public. At the moment there is no license attached but I plan on making it GPL whenever I get around to adding the headers to the tops of the files. So consider this my notification to you. The code is GPL’d.

There are still many additional features that I would like to add but at the moment, the software works. So go ahead and grab a copy and see if it will suit your needs!