I'm trying to use some java script from the popular AJAX style libraries (like Scriptaculous), but so far have had no luck getting it to work.
Does anyone have a sample of this type of behavior to share?
Thanks.
You inspired me to write such an example :-)
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2006/07/11/662730.aspx
Peter
Can't wait to try it out at home tonight.
[It's taking a while to get the HD spec]
I see that your example is driven all from the XML. In my development, the animation has been driven from the JScript. Is there any advantage or disadvantage of doing one or the other?
From an authoring perspective, it depends on what you are most comfortable with. Both get the job done.
From a player perspective, each implementation may have different performance characteristics. More complicated markup pages have a greater per-tick cost (in the naive case), but this can be reduced given enough engineering effort. Since markup is a declarative language, there is more room for optimisation than with a script-based approach but again it takes time.
I would say just do what is easiest for you to author / debug and that also gives you "good enough" performance -- no need to worry about how fast something happens if you're not dropping any frames.
