Re: Web Animation and Sound Advice Sought

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. "$Zero"
<zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> led the charge, yelling:

Dr Zen wrote:

"$Zero" <zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> led the charge, yelling:
Dr Zen wrote:
"$Zero" <zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> led the charge, yelling:
Dr Zen wrote:
"$Zero" <zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> led the charge, yelling:

Web Animation and Sound Advice Sought

anyone here got any tips on adding animation and
sound to your website?

i'm looking for the simplest way possible.

using raw HTML coding (windows notepad-generated).

Do you know any DHTML?

not yet. just basic HTML.

No JS at all?

JS = Java Script?

Yeah.

Jah.

nope. not yet.

Sal gave me some links awhile back, but i haven't had a
chance to look into them yet.

Do it. You can't make what you want without it.

I challenge you on that assertion, but... nevertheless...


Yes, Zero, doubtless you do. But you're a fucking idiot.


You need some JS to do what you're after, I think.

what's the usual learning curve with Java Script?

Steep.

Steep.


a couple days? i'm a quick study, mind you.

The basics, maybe.

Well, that applies to almost anything. Do you think that someone of my
vast Unicornian intelligence could learn what I need to know in order
to create an animation with a sound file in a couple of days?

You could rip the code, Zero. It would be easier.

My guess
is yes, since I checked out some sites last night demonstrating how to
make swf files, of course they were using some prepackaged software,
but...still.


You want to make Flash? That's not what you said.

especially with software/programming stuff.

Do you know any scripting languages? Visual Basic?

Yes. I know something very similar to Visual Basic.

Then you'll find JS easy to learn.



i handcode in microsoft notepad text files.

Yes, so do I.

i'm sure there's some cool advantages to using suff like
adobe pro-live and whatnot, but i like keeping things simple.

You would only have to check it if you used a program.

True. But I don't feel like committing to a program just yet.

Sorry, idiom problem there. I mean "there's no point using a program
because you'd have to check it anyway".

I've
been down that route. You get locked in and then you find that you're
locked into a fricken' nightmare. All that time spent probing the
depths of the program's capacity (years and yeqars) only to discover a
few years down the road that the company who makes it are losers and
nitwits.

OTOH, I've had just the opposite experience as well. I'm just not in
the mood to flip that coin right now, unless I have to. Of course,
it'd be easier to make that choice if all the techies around here were
a bit more generous with their recommendations, but, then this wouldn't
be mw, would it?

I'm far from a techie but I've given you good advice. Not what you
want to hear, maybe, but good advice nonetheless.


i have a brandnew copy of Frontpage still shrinkwrapped in the
box, but i'd rather build things from the ground up. it helps
my creativity develop.

It's up to you how you do it but without JS, you're not going
to do it.

i seem to remember some sort of "flash" option in the early HTML
stuff, years ago.

Learning flash would be harder than learning JS.

I'm thinking the old HTML feature that I was thinking about was called
"blink", not "flash". Are you talking about flash macromedia or some
such?

You are looking to make a slideshow, not flashing text.


it'd be hard to imagine that there's no way to do it without java.

Java's different.

How so? And who sells a good interface for it?


Java is a fullfeatured OO programming language. Javascript is a
distantly related scripting language. They don't even begin to be
comparable.


But maybe. I haven't kept up with that stuff.

You cannot do it without JS.

Bzzzt. But I don't doubt that Java is a good way to go.

You are just being a prick. You asked for advice. I gave it in good
faith. Java would be a fucking bad way to go.

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