Programmable Smilies

[Nisar-von-Voltenbräackter]

Over the years smiley faces have gone from still-frame ASCII and graphic images to animated features. But what if you could program the animation by causing a single frame to flip through a number of sequences that repeat once reaching their end?

 

[Harald Kapp]

Have you ever heard of animated GIFs`?

 

[Nisar-von-Voltenbräackter]

Have you ever heard of animated GIFs`?

Yeah, I know how to make those, but I doubt we'll be seeing any that I'd claim anytime soon

Good point, though!

 

[kellys_eye]

But what if you could program the animation by causing a single frame to flip through a number of sequences that repeat once reaching their end?

animated gifs

Yeah, I know how to make those

so what was the reason for your question?

 

[dave9]

One thing I definitely Do Not Want is more animated things on a webpage. Senseless waste of compute cycles, slower page load and higher data rate, distracting, and sometimes annoying.

 

[kellys_eye]

Given the propensity for kids communicating by (almost) entirely emoticons these days is it any wonder the average IQ levels are dropping

(ps - there's no emoticon for /sarc)

 

[shrtrnd]

Schools in my area first dropped teaching cursive handwriting years ago.
This year they stopped teaching penmanship of any kind completely.
EVERYTHING is done on a computer tablet in those schools.
No writing or paper used.
Can you imagine what's going to happen to society if a solar flare or EMP pulse zaps us?
Few people will have any way to effectively communicate with each other.
....sure. It can't happen here, ....
Spelling is for sissies.

 

[kellys_eye]

...well, as long as there's someone (else) to blame, the kids of today will be just fine..........

 

[dave9]

Some of them don't even know how to read an analog clock. There is hope for the future in that eventually, none will know how to operate a firearm except using a game controller or mouse, so no more school shootings.