“Colorfield Digital Media, a new Pittsburgh, Penna., company, has announced the release of Colorfield Insight 1.0, a $79 Adobe Photoshop filter that allows designers to simulate the effects of colorblindness when viewing images.” See http://www.colorfield.com/FilterGallery1a.html examples.
“How did Web grow so quickly? In the 36 months from January of 1993 to December of 1995, HTML went from being an unknown protocol to being to being the pre-eminent tool for designing electronic interfaces, decisively displacing almost all challengers and upstaging online services, CD-ROMs, and a dozen expensive and abortive experiments with interactive TV, and it did this while having no coordinated center, no central R&D effort, and no discernible financial incentive for the majority of its initial participants.”
“The story of wood type is an esoteric but important chapter in the history of typography. The use of wooden fonts proliferated during the industrial revolution as printers demanded bigger, cheaper, and ever-changing type styles. Wood type slowly declined in importance, until it faded from commercial use in the 1960s. Today, wood type, like the hardwood trees from which it was once carved, is a disappearing resource.”
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“The purpose of this tutorial is to start you off on [an] educational process and to help you to get into the right frame of mind to adapt to the new browsers —and hopefully to ease your pain a little along the way. Part 1 deals with HTML and CSS and weaning yourself from past sins. In Part 2 we will look into Javascript and the Document Object Model (DOM). Also, for the sake of simplicity the focus is on Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.”
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online GIF image editor What Is GIFWorks? It’s an online GIF image editor. This unique tool is completely on-line — nothing to download or install. Better yet, it’s ABSOLUTELY FREE — no prepaid tokens or subscriptions. What can I do with GIFWorks? Create your own sp
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“At present, we do not know how to optimize reading via electronic equipment. In this chapter, some considerations that may help us do this in the future will be raised, and some of the relevant evidence and theory that does exist will be cited and briefly highlighted. The focus of this paper is on reading of continuous text, whether in linear form or hypertext form, and with or without the presence of graphics or other types of information.”
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