June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 33m
English
CHAPTER 2
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Canvas and Animation Basics
In the world of interactivity, a simple animation can be both a great introduction to learning as well as effective for conveying messages to the user. Many people believe that all interactive features on websites are games, but this just is not true! I hope that from this chapter you will gain an insight of how you can do something a little bit differently—how to stand out from the standard websites with professional animations.
There are many ways we can add animation these days, with the ever-more impressive HTML and CSS technologies, including: transforms, canvas, and SVG. I focus on canvas as it is used ...