Over the past 15 or so years, I've edited and created a thousands of images.  I almost always use a mask for something, and it's very rarely only rectangular. I have a need for doing this on the web, natively in the browser, and I might not be the only one. With JavaScript and the DOM, you can create a series rectangles that represent ...

Recently I was tasked with creating a spiffy demo for our new AJAX Annotations control and I ran across an interesting problem. For reference, I am creating a demo that looks and behaves much like the AJAX Multipage Tiff Demo, with all the transparent PNG goodness that we can now take advantage of in IE7. Since the default doctype in VS ...

There have been countless times where I have made user interfaces that were easily customizable using style sheets.  Usually the graphics were generic enough so that you could change the colors without making it look too bad.  Then there are the interfaces with the drop shadows, overlays, and other semi-transparent areas which would ...