- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 04:29:14 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 16 May 2007, ddailey wrote: > > Observe the sparseness of the JavaScript code involved in > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/clock.svg (working in IE, FF > & Opera) > > compared to the <canvas> solution someone posted the other day here. > http://developer-stage.mozilla.org/en/docs/Canvas_tutorial:Basic_animations Except the former one doesn't look anything as good as the latter one, almost exclusively because of the difference in the dashes. :-) (The <canvas> one has rounded caps on the "dashes", and they are smaller for the minute marks than the 5 minute marks.) > In terms of a not so practical use case > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/newstuff/wiggleline.svg as > viewed in Opera provides a very good reason, though IE/ASV does not > properly animate dashed strokes and FF doesn't do SMIL yet so you'll > need Opera to see it. > > A ten or twelve year old java applet doing something similar can be seen > here: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/java/tile/Trime.html In it > the dashing is provided rather painfully through code. Cool, thanks for the pointers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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