raphics, such as illustrations or diagrams, appear in many different kinds of text, and often with different purposes. In some cases, the graphic is an integral part of a text (indeed, some texts — comic books for example — may be almost entirely graphic); in others the graphic may be a kind of optional extra
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain’s history, take this fantastic opportunity to search this vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.
The PDF format is one of the most common eBook types that you are likely to come across on the Internet. While OS X supports the reading of PDF files using the application Preview, and Apple’s portable devices now have
Drag and drop (D&D) is an intuitive GUI gesture used for
transferring data from one GUI component to another. This second
article in the drag and drop series explores how you can transfer
data besides text and discusses the issues involved with developing
a library of D&D-enabled project Swing components. (4,400
words)
Using image sprites is sort of a last resort after you have done as much as you can with other optimization techniques. A sprite is an image that has all of your other images inside of it, so if your sprite has 10 images, you'd be getting rid of 9 HTTP requests and speeding your site's loading time up by the time for each of those 9 requests' latency.
/ImageProperties.xmlIncludes descriptive elements of the source image like height, width, and tile size./TileGroup0/0-0-0.jpgThe highest power-of-2 zoom out level that creates an image with dimensions less than 256×256/TileGroup0/1-0-0.jpgThe tile at the upper left corner at the first power-of-2 zoom level/TileGroup0/1-1-0.jpgThe tile to the left of 1-0-0.jpg
The shim mimics that directory structure. It parses the URL of the request and dynamically creates the appropriate JPEG tile (or metadata file) out of the JPEG2000 image.
This online archive offers access to the digitized original documents of the private papers of Konrad Zuse. These documents include technical drawings, photographs, and various documents, some of which are written in shorthand