The web shook up the text-based world of the Internet when it first appeared because web pages can display text in different fonts along with graphics on the same page. That hadn't been possible before, and was a major step for the Internet.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Animated GIFs
A little-known feature of the GIF file format provides the simplest form of web apge animations. If someone creates multiple imaes, each slightly different, and saves them into a single GIF file using a speacial program designed for that purpose, most programs that can display a static GIF can display the animated GIF, much as you might have made flipbook animations as a kid.Animated GIFs are genetally set to loop constanylty, which is unfortunate, since I believe they'd have more impact and be less annoying if they looped just once, or at leat put a significant delay between loops. Animated GIFs are limited in the same way static GIFs are. The beauty of animated GIFs is that they requireno additional software. Essentially, animated GIFs are simple, cheap, and probably the most common way of publishing an animation on a web page. You can find more information about animated GIFs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF or more Examples of Animated GIF at http://www.gif.com/
There are serveral browsers that can be use to view the Multimedia contents on the Internet. Most of them are compatible with the most of the multimedia on the Webpages, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator
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