tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2/last25 2010-01-15T03:27:11Z Dave Shea http://mezzoblue.com/about/dave/ tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/048692 2010-03-16T18:00:09Z 2010-03-16T18:00:09Z Thanks for the interesting write up and link to Matt's video on youtube. I have been playing around with the canvas element over the last month and have been slightly let down by the amount of code it takes to create a simple illustration. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1448/048366 2010-03-03T15:49:22Z 2010-03-03T15:49:22Z I run into this problem all the time. My normal work-around is to, before hitting save for web, pick the color that I want for matte, and then in the save dialogue, choose "Foreground color" for matte. But I think the bigger problem is, that often you want to save .gif's or .png's with transparency. So you have to hide the layers you don't to be seen. And then when you want to save for web, the color, that you for matte, is not visible. So you can't color pick it anyway. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1449/048319 2010-03-02T17:19:08Z 2010-03-02T17:19:08Z Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander had not yet married Máxima Zorreguieta --that happened on 02-02-02... tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1449/048277 2010-03-01T14:05:30Z 2010-03-01T14:05:30Z - The date 9/11 was still a normal date. - MS-DOS is still sold offically by Microsoft (until end of 2001). - Switzerland is still not part of the United Nations. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) still isnt´t beatifed by the catholic church. - Still alive: Jassir Arafat, Heath Ledger, Paul Newman tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/047883 2010-02-23T17:38:32Z 2010-02-23T17:38:32Z http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3421]]> tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1448/047881 2010-02-23T16:56:43Z 2010-02-23T16:56:43Z You think it's bad on the Mac? In addition to the lack of an eyedropper in the "Save for Web" color picker, Photoshop on Windows has had a nagging problem since version 6: After about an hour or so of editing a layers-heavy Photoshop file, copy/paste stops working. Completely. I have to close all my files (including the several unsaved reference screenshots), close down Photoshop, restart it, and reopen everything again. Frustrating! Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP (not sure about Win7, I'm back to using CS3) is a *resource hog*. CS4 takes up 50% of the CPU when it starts up, with no files open. And then after about an hour of use, it slows down to where it takes a second or more to register mouse-clicks. *Really* frustrating when using the pen tool. It seems a lot of these problems with Photoshop really manifested themselves after Adobe acquired Macromedia. Granted, it's anecdotal evidence, but I wonder if there's a connection. Anywho, thanks for giving me an opportunity to vent :-) tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/047448 2010-02-17T22:21:16Z 2010-02-17T22:21:16Z That will open up some really interesting design possibilities, but the pessimistic side of me thinks it will be years before you could use it as a standard design element without having to have a second design for older browsers. tag:mezzoblue.com,2009://2.1447/047274 2010-02-14T15:13:10Z 2010-02-14T15:13:10Z if you’re comfortable and quick with it, the pen tool is a great way to handle this as well. (especially if you’re the ‘do it manually’ type tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1448/047264 2010-02-14T12:03:04Z 2010-02-14T12:03:04Z Wow, I thought I was the only one who had this issue. Maybe I’m not that special after all tag:mezzoblue.com,2009://2.1446/047138 2010-02-07T17:11:53Z 2010-02-07T17:11:53Z Thanks for the article Dave, I believed the Font Squirrel’s generator does take care of the name issues and WEFT works just fine in Windows XP on VMware Fusion for the Macintosh. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1448/047125 2010-02-02T17:11:28Z 2010-02-02T17:11:28Z I had a look at this in my PS CS2 on mac osx and it also presents with this bug. It seems like they have had this problem all along and it was just never fixed. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1448/047047 2010-01-27T07:07:17Z 2010-01-27T07:07:17Z I agree the way you’re trying to do it would be more intuitive and in keeping with the way Photoshop handles the colour picker everywhere else. You can however easily pick the transparency/mate colour by simply selecting the colour that you want to make mate in the “Colour Table”. Select the colour and then select the transparent box icon (2nd icon form the left underneath the Colour Table) and this will make the selected colour transparent. No need to copy or paste the Hex value or anything like that. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/047042 2010-01-27T02:23:51Z 2010-01-27T02:23:51Z Further to my last post, why doesn't someone round here set up a sort of html canvas garden? You know, a bit like that CSS garden thing that some Canadian bloke set up a few years ago. tag:mezzoblue.com,2007://2.1403/047012 2010-01-26T00:21:17Z 2010-01-26T00:21:17Z Things have changed a lot since you wrote this article. It's good to see supermarkets (in the UK) charging for carrier bags now as they become more aware of the need to cut down on packaging, although many manufacturers still insist on bulky packaging using unsustainable plastics. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/047000 2010-01-25T12:38:57Z 2010-01-25T12:38:57Z I have to agree 100% with the previous guy's comments re: verbosity. I too have played around with the canvas tag and found that for even relatively simple graphics there seems to be a disproportionate amount of coding required. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/046928 2010-01-23T00:16:22Z 2010-01-23T00:16:22Z Seems like a major shortcoming of canvas that it is so verbose and time-consuming. tag:mezzoblue.com,2009://2.1445/046890 2010-01-21T19:34:19Z 2010-01-21T19:34:19Z http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/woff/]]> tag:mezzoblue.com,2009://2.1445/046813 2010-01-21T07:15:51Z 2010-01-21T07:15:51Z http://www.qualys.com/research/alerts/view.php/2010-01-12-1 This rather upsets the apple cart. The font design and publishing industry has been trying to move the browser folks to a more secure XML webfont format which also provides for I/P protection of commercial fonts. This is still an open question! Cheers! Peter ]]> tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/046736 2010-01-18T23:38:12Z 2010-01-18T23:38:12Z Hi, have you looked into doing a straight conversion? PostScript and the .AI format are surprisingly readable, if you're comfortable with numbers. The keyword on the sneakpeek video is "FXG"... it's a tool-neutral representation, already supported in the Creative Suite tools. You don't need to wait for Adobe to do anything more to enable it... FXG format is already there. jd/adobe tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/046725 2010-01-18T16:49:44Z 2010-01-18T16:49:44Z http://kevinsuttle.com/how-adobe-made-the-flash-platform-beyond-future-proof]]> tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/046654 2010-01-16T11:16:59Z 2010-01-16T11:16:59Z http://www.canvasdemos.com Hopefully we'll begin to see some proper authoring tools appear on the scene soon, Adobe CS5 for one.]]> tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1449/046652 2010-01-16T09:36:41Z 2010-01-16T09:36:41Z Clever! The Concorde :'( tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1449/046641 2010-01-15T21:54:53Z 2010-01-15T21:54:53Z Farrah Fawcett was also alive. Gaga was more likely to be associated with a baby than a Lady. American Idol had not yet debuted. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1450/046640 2010-01-15T21:08:16Z 2010-01-15T21:08:16Z @Anders - I gave it a shot, and *was* able to get it to work in the trial. I had to draw the item using the Opacity drawing tools as the SVG import seems to render it like a bitmap. I was able to make a cloud-like shape, but didn't quite grok how to make negative spaces like the eyes and mouth. Anyway, it seems Opacity might be worth a second look for this type of thing. tag:mezzoblue.com,2010://2.1449/046638 2010-01-15T19:04:15Z 2010-01-15T19:04:15Z Bob Hope was still alive as well!