Chapter 10. An Animated Slideshow
What this chapter covers:
The basics of animation
Web page enhancement with animation
In this chapter, you'll see one of the most dynamic applications of CSS-DOM: the ability to animate elements.
Animation basics
The previous chapter introduced the DOM's ability to update the styles attached to a document. Using JavaScript to add presentational information can save you time and effort, but, for the most part, CSS remains the best tool for the job.
There's one area, however, where CSS can't really help much. If you want to change an element's style information over time, you'll probably need to use JavaScript. CSS3 introduces a number of different transition methods that allow you to animate elements. However, currently, ...
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