The Old New Thing

August 5, 2005 - The Old New Thing

Have you made any assignments in this space?

August 5, 2005 Aug 5, 2005 08/5/05
Raymond Chen
Riffing on Larry's profound distaste for the use of the word 'ask' as a noun (a distaste I share)... It's been three years since I heard the question "Have you made any assignments in this space?" during a meeting and I still don't know what the person was trying to say...

Why does the Internet Explorer animated logo arrange its frame vertically?

August 5, 2005 Aug 5, 2005 08/5/05
Raymond Chen
If you ever tried to build a custom animated logo for Internet Explorer, you cetainly noticed that the frames of the animation are arranged vertically rather than horizontally. Why is that? Because it's much more efficient. Recall that bitmaps are stored as a series of rows of pixels. In other words, if you number the pixels of a bitmap ...