[thelist] This is cool eye candy

[John Dowdell]

Canfield, Joel wrote:
> good question. if it needed a plugin my browser already had, how would,
> say, Flash, look any different from javascript?

Depends on the creator, I guess. Those sprite-style animations would 
play a little more smoothly in Flash Player, but it's such a simple task 
that I'm not sure how much difference you'd see. Doing a realtime blur 
is one of the best tricks for making pixel-based movement appear 
smoother, faster, for instance. I'd guess many Flash developers would 
look at changing the shape as well as the position, maybe with a 
rotation or flip to turn one into the other. Aesthetics is a hard call 
for me to make.

For the work itself, Dreamweaver 1.0 had such animated-path timelines 
for DIVs. Maybe we'll see a resurgence in such JavaScript now...?

jd





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