[Eric Bliss]

Hmm…

The music this most reminds me of, is the music played on the old Civil Defense info cartoons, starring Tommy the Turtle if I remember his name correctly – “Duck, and Cover!” (what to do in case of a Nuclear Attack.) Given that they were US Government issue, I’m sure some of the stuff on them has got to be under some sort of public domain license. Not sure exactly where you’ve find it though… some sort of government archive probably.

On the other hand, although it wouldn’t be royalty-free, I’m sure Richard Cheese has something appropriate on his “Lounge Against the Machine” album.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
   printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

Well, sorry. Looks like we can’t do it. Here’s the problem…

Many moons ago, when the Web was young, and Netscape ruled the browser tribes, a Language was born, a Messiah who would give Web Page Builders the power to imbue their children with “Interactivity”. And the tribal elders raised the Language up to the heavens, and did verily name it…. “JavaScript”.

Then the Evil Empire came along, under the rulership of its Dark Lord, who said, “Behold, a new world to conquer!” And he did verily send out his hordes of Evil Theives, who stole the Language, and cloned it – yet imperfectly, for nothing of the Evil Empire is done right. Thus, the clone looked like JavaScript, and mostly acted like JavaScript – yet there were differences. And the Cloners did verily name their Language… “JScript”.

Thus began the Browser Wars.

Many generations were born, grew old, raised children of their own, and died, yet the war never ended. The Evil Empire did all it could to annihilate the ragtag tribes of browsers, yet the people resisted its overbearing posture. The Armies of Light, under the leadership of Sun, fought back to push the Evil Empire out of their homelands. Alas, their efforts were in vain. None had the power to stop the Empire from dominating any land it desired, as the Dark Lord sent forth his propaganda, that the Browser Fields were the inalienable right of the OS Lands to take by force.

Years passed.

In the shadows at the outer fringes of the Browser Fields, hope had been born anew. A young fox, born in fire, arose to challenge the Evil Empire for the right to his own land. Firefox (for so he was named), grandchild of the great Netscape, strode forth, waving the banner of that now ancient Language, “JavaScript”.

Yet in the intervening years, JScript, the child of the Dark Lord, had grown, twisted and evil. Under the tutelage of its father, the Dark Lord, it grew powerful in the ways of the Binary, learning how to do acts that many considered “unnatural”. And thus could it do that which JavaScript would not.

And that, my son, is why the tag editors will only work in Internet Explorer running on Windows. The Dark Side of the Binary is quicker, easier, more seductive – and the source of the HTML Tag insertion buttons. Only the most evil of Browsers can use it – which is why Firefox cannot.

I’m sure there’s a moral to this story somewhere, but it’s been lost to antiquity… a whopping 8 years ago.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
   printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

Huh. It seems those buttons only exist for people on Windows boxes who are using Internet Explorer. I never use IE, (yep, I’m another Firefox user) so I didn’t even know that I was missing something. Same thing goes for all the Mac and Linux users it seems.

I’ll take a look into fixing this.

And why do I have old 80’s songs playing through my head???
“Don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone…” 🙂

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
   printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

Ummmm…..

Let’s see here. In under a minute…

Click “Tutorials” (or “Features”)
Click “Sort by Author”
Scroll down to where it says “Dan Ebberts”, and click it. (Here’s a hint – They’re alphabetized by the author’s last name.)
Scroll down half an inch (if you even need to) – click “Greatest Cameraman”

Or…

Click “Tutorials” (again, or “Features”)
Click “Sort by Title”
Click “B”
To make it fast, open the browser’s “Find” function (usually ctrl-F on a PC.)
type in “Cameraman” or “Ebberts” – hit “Find on page”
Click the link. Read the article.

Or… (since you’ve already read it, and know it’s about AE’s expressions tools)

Click “Sort by Category”
Click “Adobe After Effects: Expressions”
You know it wasn’t a video, so that only leaves one option – Click “Tutorial”
Scroll down half an inch (again, if you need to) – Click “Building the Cameraman”

So, let’s see here – that’s by Author Name (which you knew), Article Title (which you also knew) and by Category (which you probably could have guessed – like I did).

And that’s all in less than a minute for any of those.

Now, maybe I’m just being bitchy, but if you’ve ever been to a library or a book store, chances are you’re doing one of those searchs without even thinking about it. After all, I just write computer programs – I don’t know diddly squat about After Effects, but I still managed to find your article in under a minute.

So, when WAS the last time you found something at the library? (Sorry, but I just couldn’t help myself)

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
   printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

Ummmm…..

Let’s see here. In under a minute…

Click “Tutorials” (or “Features”)
Click “Sort by Author”
Scroll down to where it says “Dan Ebberts”, and click it. (Here’s a hint – They’re alphabetized by the author’s last name.)
Scroll down half an inch (if you even need to) – click “Greatest Cameraman”

Or…

Click “Tutorials” (again, or “Features”)
Click “Sort by Title”
Click “B”
To make it fast, open the browser’s “Find” function (usually ctrl-F on a PC.)
type in “Cameraman” or “Ebberts” – hit “Find on page”
Click the link. Read the article.

Or… (since you’ve already read it, and know it’s about AE’s expressions tools)

Click “Sort by Category”
Click “Adobe After Effects: Expressions”
You know it wasn’t a video, so that only leaves one option – Click “Tutorial”
Scroll down half an inch (again, if you need to) – Click “Building the Cameraman”

So, let’s see here – that’s by Author Name (which you knew), Article Title (which you also knew) and by Category (which you probably could have guessed – like I did).

And that’s all in less than a minute for any of those.

Now, maybe I’m just being bitchy, but if you’ve ever been to a library or a book store, chances are you’re doing one of those searchs without even thinking about it. After all, I just write computer programs – I don’t know diddly squat about After Effects, but I still managed to find your article in under a minute.

So, when WAS the last time you found something at the library? (Sorry, but I just couldn’t help myself)

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
   printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}