X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,caeb065726bb6bf8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Joan's Animated Pixie (Hold spacebar down) Date: 1997/04/23 Message-ID: <335DF50A.2781E494@sm.luth.se.nospam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 236783681 References: <5jjm6k$3eu@reader.seed.net.tw> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw wrote: > > Veronica Karlsson (e93-vkn@sm.luth.se.nospam) wrote -- [ 8< 8< ] > > 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...). [ 8< 8< ] -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )