Summary
In this chapter, the second of our heavily example-based as opposed to theory-based chapters, we looked at some more common animations that are increasingly found on the Web. Specifically we looked at the following types of animations:
- A proximity driven image scroller where the images scrolled in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer
- Background-position animations, in which we created a continuous header animation manually with just a few lines of code
- A text marquee, where a series of headlines were grabbed from a live Internet feed and displayed in a scrolling marquee-style banner
In the next chapter, we'll move to look at some of the new pure CSS animations that have been introduced ...
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