HTML5 THE MISSING MANUAL REVIEW

You may read on web design blogs that putting your scripts at the bottom of the page is the proper way to add JavaScript. However, there are also downsides to this approach. In some cases, the JavaScript code you add to a page has dramatic effects on the page’s[r]

6. Repeat to create additional locks of hair.
You should see a result similar to the one shown in Figure 2-19.
Arranging drawn objects forward and backward
When you draw in object mode, each part of your drawing (the head, the hat, the hair) is an object, and you c[r]

Read an iBook
Of course, reading an iBook isn’t the same as cracking open the spine of a leather-bound volume and relaxing in an English club chair with a snifter of brandy by the fire. But really—who reads books that way any more (except for the impossibly wealthy an[r]

Listeners
Getting Help for Events and Event Listeners
Now that the Flash document is ready to go, it’s time to write and register an event listener, but where do you start? Computers are fussy beasts and won’t work properly unless everything is done their way. ActionScript is the same.[r]

Open the feeds you want, choose Safari Preferences, click General, and click Set to Current Page.. In other words, suppose you start by opening a list of local, national, international, [r]

have thought of. For example, say you have friends coming in from Melbourne and you want to make them feel at home without renting a herd of kangaroos. So you decide to learn about Australian Rules Football. You head to the Google Directory and follow the links in succession for Sp[r]

I n the olden days of animation, artists had to create a drawing for each frame of a movie by hand. Sure, they had their shortcuts, but since most movie frames click by at 24 frames per second, that’s a labor-intensive endeavor. To keep costs down, animation production companies had their[r]

choose from a few canned settings called presets. Once you start tweaking the sliders, the menu changes to read “Custom” as shown in Figure 8-13, top. • Edit pop-up menu. This menu, which doesn’t have a label, lets you choose the
color channels you want to adjust. When you[r]

Up to Speed
Profiles Aren’t All Equal
It’s shocking but true: Some profiles are just plain wrong! Photoshop offers many built-in profiles (like “Adobe RGB 1998”) that include general color mode info, along with slightly more specific though still generic profiles (like “US Sheetfed Coat[r]

Once you’ve got your AIR project squared away, you’ll want to test it, debug it, and ultimately distribute it to your audience, just like a Flash animation. In Flash-speak, that means you need to publish your project. The process for publishing an AIR project is slightly different fr[r]

<a> href="http://www.stutzbearcat.net">click me</a>
Like most HTML tags, the anchor tag comes in pairs: <a>in between stuff</a>. The slash is the defining mark of an end tag. In HTML, you stuff that first tag with any necessary[r]

Camera, Photos, and Video 131
•  Favorites, Playlists, Subscriptions, My Videos.  You can use these search options  only if you have a Youtube account. You  can  get  an  account  for  free  at  www.you- tube.com ,  so  if  you  plan  to  use Youtube  much, it’s worth doing. tap the Me[r]

pushing Play, your tablet makes a nice high-def game console as well. You can zap zombies, thwart governments, and channel your inner Dale earnhardt Jr. You can also relive your glory days at the arcade. But instead of facing a machine the size of a phone booth, your fate lies in y[r]

Sadly, there’s no recipe for a perfect database. Instead, a number of recommenda- tions can guide you on the way. In the following sections, you’ll learn about a few of the most important.
Note: Few database rules can’t be broken. Sometimes, there’s tension between clear, lo[r]

Tip: Try to get your message across as succinctly as possible. Fewer frames (and therefore images) typically mean a smaller file size, which is important if you plan to put your Flash animation up on the web. (Folks surfing with dial-up or on a cellphone often have trouble viewing large f[r]

As you learn to use more advanced features like end notes and comments, described later in this book, you'll find it very convenient to use them as your landmarks, as well.
2.3.4. Browsing by Bookmark
The bookmarks that slip between the pages of books are elegant in their simplicit[r]

Introduction
• QuickBooks Pro is the workhorse edition. It lets up to five people work in a company file at a time; you can purchase licenses in single- or five-user packs. QuickBooks Pro includes features for tasks such as invoicing; entering and pay- ing bills; job costing; creat[r]

Importing Fireworks Graphics
Fireworks is another program that’s part of Adobe’s Creative Suite family. Fire- works’s specialty is performing all sorts of graphics tricks for people who design websites. It has tools for creating buttons, rollover images, and other web graphics. For ex[r]