Re: Joan's Animated Pixie (Hold spacebar down)

dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson (e93...@sm.luth.se.nospam) wrote --
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> > When I tried holding the space-bar down I accidentally flew too far and
> > marked a large number of unread messaged read and had some trouble
> > finding my way back...
> 
> Super-old no-frills news readers will do that. There's nothing wrong with
> using such programs, but you really ought to scroll through the animation
> *slowly* the first time to check it out.
> 

I use one of the newest (if not _the_ newest) versions of Netscape
(don't know exactly since that part of business is handled by system
people).

> > I have found another way to animate ascii but when I tried that the
> > animations went much too fast and all you saw was a flicker and then the
> > last picture in the series. Then you could make gif animations of them
> > and even though those are cool I don't want to call them "ascii
> > animations"....
> >
> > I think the new java method is the best so far (of the ones that I have
> > seen) and I also think that in a couple of years java will become more
> > common.
> 
> Space-bar animations, I'm sure, are the oldest. Then we had ANSI
> animations; then HTML animations; then GIF; and now Java.... Somehow I
> doubt Java will become universal (by which I mean as widespread as ASCII)
> or, even if it does, that it will remain so for very long.
> 

Hmmmm.... if Java will become common or not is something we can only
guess about at this point but I can say that I think that the Java
animations are the ones of best quality (especially since it is possible
to control the speed of the animation...).

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-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )

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