Thursday, March 6, 2008

Kinds of animations

I have heard that there are three different kinds of animation are there animated they are gif’s, plug-ins animation and java script based animation. Let us know them in detail. The number of ways to produce an animation for a web page grows daily. We'll look at a few of these and begin with the simpler ways to make and place animations and progress to the more complex:
Animated gifs: Animated gifs are perhaps the simplest ways to create an animation. Simple freeware tools exist for their creation, and the process of fashioning a satisfactory animation is usually only a matter of choosing several regular gif files and placing them in the proper order in the animated gif program. Then, once the animated gif has been created, it is placed on the web page the same way that a regular gif file is.
JavaScript-based animations: JavaScript (a relatively simple programming script language that works with HTML in both Netscape and Internet Explorer and not to be confused with java) can be used to create effects similar to animated gifs. The advantage to JavaScript-based animations is that they can be more interactive. A common JavaScript-based animation on the web is one that changes a bit of text to a different color when the cursor is placed on it. This is a popular animation for menus. JavaScript-based animations require that certain bits of computer code be placed at specific points in the HTML source page.
Plug-in animations: Animations created by other software programs can be viewed on a web page if the web browser is using a plug-in. A plug-in is a bit of software that adds functionality to the browser. One of the most popular plug-ins, for example, is the Shockwave plug-in. If it is installed on a browser, then a user can view animations created by Macromedia's Director program, a very powerful application to make interactive CD's and other stand-alone applications. Another plug-in is the Real Player plug-in which lets the user view specially encoded video clips right on a web page.
These are different kinds of animations as on my knowledge.

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