# from Keith Lofstrom
# on Tuesday 12 May 2009:
>Animated GIFs work in open office, but they display slowly and
>jerkily. They display faster embedded in web pages via Firefox,
>but they still look grainy.
>
>Meanwhile, my distro provides an open source package called
>"swftools" which includes a tool "png2swf". I wrote some
>programs in C, linked to libgd, to write animated GIFs, frame
>by frame. Now I am retooling the programs to write PNG frames
>to a directory, and combining them with png2swf.
I'm sure that's working fine, but my fist thought was "what about svg?"
I would imagine that this would involve generating javascript (or
svg 'animate' nodes?) to drive the animation, and it would probably be
a bit smaller given that the vectors could be manipulated directly (if
that works -- of course, the adobe flash plugin is likely to behave the
same everywhere, where SVG support is probably *still* spotty.)
But alas, "good enough" is always the enemy of "better".
--Eric
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