Project History and Critical Requirements
The critical requirements for this project are somewhat artificial and not easily stated as something separate from HTML. For example, I wanted to draw the logo as opposed to copying an image from the Web. My design objectives always include wanting to practice programming and prepare examples for my students. The shape of the shield part of the logo seemed amenable to drawing on canvas and the HTML letters could be done using the draw text feature. In addition, there are practical advantages to drawing images instead of using image files. Separate files need to be managed, stored, and downloaded. The image shown in Figure 1-4 is 90KB. The file holding the code for the program is only 4KB. Drawing a logo ...
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