Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: An ignorant question?

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Mark Preston wrote:

> FWIW I would advise learning and using the JavaScript programming language and 
> any text editor for animations. 
Please refer to
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/samples/>
for some possibilities for eye candy through scrpting Javascript with CSS.
Mozilla is the most standards compliant of the  widely used browser, I 
guess.

> A lot of flash is basically JavaScript 
The interactive part of Flash is actually  a subset called 
ActionScript....very similar but with less functionality.
The Flash making software automates the script for tose who click buttons.

We all know how interactive Javascript can be if we know what browser is 
running it.

For SVG in Mozilla itself I saw this and thought some might be interested...
<http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.svg>

> anyway. A lot of scripts are available for free download on the web and as 
> ECMA script it has become a sort of standard. If you are running Linux (and 
> if not why not?) then Kpresenter is an alternative to Impress. I quite like 
> Kpresenter, and you can export your Kpresenter presentations as a series of 
> HTML pages. Combine this with some JavaScript, tested under Mozilla, and you 
> should be able to give some pretty nifty platform independent presentations.
>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:07:05PM +0100, Andrew Atkinson wrote:
>  
>
> > hello
> >
> > I have been tinkering with delivering lessons using Flash. Now this is what
> > I call an educational tool. But what would you lot suggest I use. To keep me
> > from going mad I have to keep preparation time to a minimum. I have on
> > average five 50 minute lessons a day, plus marking and running the IT and
> > ICT department. In the end I want to be able to spread the use to all
> > teachers IT literate or not.
> >
> > Andrew Atkinson
> > Maths and ICT teacher (aged 11-18)
> >    
>
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