Theju,
There are two ways to animate images on web pages (aside from shockwave etc.):
you can do a gif89 image or you can use server push to send a series of gifs
from server to client. Gif89s are probably easier and better looking, once
you get the hang of doing them--they're really layered images which reveal
one layer at a time, in sequence, at a specified speed and for a specified
number of repetitions. The other method, server push, is not that often
used any more, and it's more cumbersome--and if you have the images
necessary to do the server push,
you can use them to assemble a gif89. I guess the one advantage of server push
is that the server push might work on more and older clients.
Actually, Javascript could do some of this too, but I wouldn't tackle that
at this point in the process...
I can't get at the netscape server right now, but in their documentation
you will find information on server push.
http://www.t3media.com/gallery.html is a site with some examples of Gif89
animation--I like the one on the first page, myself.
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifanim.htm is one of several mirror sites
of a document that has everything you need to know about doing GIF89
animations: have at!
John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English
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