This is a photo gallery featuring images of Lake Tahoe created with ActionScript 2.0. I grew up in Reno, Nevada (very near the lake) and will always hold this beautiful piece of land very close to my heart, so it is my pleasure to share these photos with you.
If you’ve ever tried to type some fancy code into your “About Me” section of MySpace and previewed the output only to find a jumbled mess of characters, you’re not alone. It’s all because of the magic power the site has at eating up your code and spitting out a series of dots. Thanks, News Corp.
In all honesty it is probably a good idea to have all the exciting features disabled on pages. There could very well be some (err, even more) nasty profile hacks out there if people were allowed to post whatever they wanted. I’m still waiting for the day people are no longer allowed to magically transform their page into some Flash deliciousness only because they copy and pasted some code from a freebie website.
In the meantime, I’ll settle for some image rollovers to snazzy up my page a bit. No problem. I’ll just create a bit of Javascript and call it good. Wait, what’s that? Javascript eats that up and turns into those killer dots? Oh yeah. (more…)
