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

Raymond Chen August 5, 2005 Aug 5, 2005 08/5/05

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 ...