Animation on webpages

[Greg Hamilton]

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/

SVG is an open standard for vector graphics. There are plugins 
available for most browsers now. It has some support for animation, 
scripting and user interaction. Demonstrations I've seen were clunky by 
comparison to Flash but it is a work in progress and is worth keeping 
an eye on.

There are some great free tools for editing static SVG images. I 
particularly like Inkscape which is a fork of Sodi Podi. Gimp 2.0 is 
supposed to have some SVG support too, though I haven't used it yet . 
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any editors which allow the easy 
creation of animated SVG in the style of the Flash editor, you probably 
have to do that by hand.

On 13/04/2004, at 10:45 AM, Longman, Bill wrote:

>> As we all know, Flash is not well supported (if at all) on PPC Linux.
>>
>> As a webdesigner, I'm trying to make my websites as accessible as
>> possible on all platforms though.
>>
>> I am to make a website now for one of my customers, that would like to
>> see some animation in it. I could use flash (limiting the audience to
>> Windows/MacOS/Linux-x86), but I'd rather use something more open.
>>
>> Do any of you have experience with other forms of animation
>> for websites?
>>
>> What are my options ?
>
> Animated GIFs work just about anywhere. I have a 256x256x8bit GIF with 
> 177
> images in it. It takes up about 7MB. It's definitely on the heavy side
> compared to Flash but it works great. You could also try any of the 
> MPEG
> formats for video. They're rather cross-platform.
>
> Bill
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