What programs are available to create animated GIFS?
What are the benefits & limitations of GIF89a animations? Benefits • Support for all the benefits of GIF: transparency, compression, interlacing, and up to 256 colors • Supported by Netscape 2.0 and highre and Microsoft Internet explorer. No Plug-ins or additional software.Non-supporting browsers either display the first or last image. • Web designer does not need access to internet provider’s web server or programs that require scripting. • The animation is repeatable and reusable. You can place the same image on a page multiple times. • It performs a single download for all and loops all from the disk cache. • Images are usually smaller than corresponding images created for plug-ins or with Java applets. • Works like any other GIF. Anyone can include an animated GIF on a Web page with a IMG tag, even anchor it. • Will play once or continuously. Clicking the Reload button or resizing the windows will make the animation replay. If the viewer returns BACK to the page from elsewhere, the
