browser status-bars - a new venue for ASCII animations
From R L Samuell <see...@end.to_mail_to.us>
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· 19 Sep 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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In the past, a few monolinear or single-line ASCII animations have been
created. The files 'snail.vt' and 'arrow.vt' are examples.
While good program-generated animations are rather difficult to create
for a full-screen venue, they are much more easily done for single-line
environments for someone with a little programming skill.
JavaScript has been used to render ASCII animations in the textareas of
browser windows. But it can also be used to generate ASCII animations
which appear in the status bar of a browser.
These status-bar animations can be a rather attractive way to dress up
an otherwise plain-text displayed page.
Awhile back, I thought it might be interesting to develop a one-line
program in perl (: a past-time of some perl devotees :) that when run
would generate a one-line animation. When I ported this animation to
JavaScript, it became my first single-line status-bar animation which I
called 'Ytornado'. It is pretty simple but still demonstrates the
concept.
In 1994, I created the ASCII Aquarium-- the most complex,
program-generated ASCII animation I have done so far. I have
down-sized this idea to create my second single-line animation of a
three-fish ASCII Aquarium neatly contained on the single line of the
status-bar of a browser.
To view and read more about these two animations, please link to:
http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/Software/Ytornado.shtml
http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/Software/Aquarium.shtml
The server at this site is VERY *S* *L* *O* *W*, so please be patient.
Also note that some browser implementations of JavaScript are buggy so
these animations may not work as intended or at all in your case.
Sorry.
Regards,
R L Samuell
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Copyright: (c) 1999 R L Samuell, All Rights Reserved.
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