April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
325 pages
9h 24m
English
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Chapter 18 Animations
Working with a modern computer is an immensely visual experience. Almost everything we do results in visible, graphical changes on our screens. When we write a letter, images and characters appear. When we look for something on the Web, the content of our browser window changes to represent the web page we’re currently visiting. When we read email, messages open and close.
Modern user interfaces make use of both very small visual changes (a single dot next to a message disappearing or reappearing because we read a message or chose to mark it as unread) and very large visual changes (everything on our screen changing because ...