help with animations stuff

help with animations stuff

Hi guys.<div>
</div><div>I'm <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">working on creating interactive learning activities for Sugar.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Currently I have troubles around animation, I'm trying to do basic animation using (at this moment) js + jQuery </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Here is a post talking about them: <a href="http://karmaproject.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/animation-with-javascript-that-little-beast/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 84, 136); ">http://karmaproject.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/animation-with-javascript-that-little-beast/</a></span></div>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Maybe you could help with ideas about next issues:</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div>*how to run parallel animations?. In fact, parrallel js code?</div>
<div>I have been using setTimeOut but this solution stinks.</div><div>BryanWB and kbrosnan (#firefox) has directed me to web workers.</div><div>
</div><div>*how to get something like layers?. It’s hard to work in the same layer.</div>
<div>I have been using div html tag and z-index property, it works, but.. does it exists something better?</div><div>
</div><div>*js framerate?</div><div>Inspired by processingjs I wrote a minimalist draw function but… seems that I need to adjust the framerate depending of the cpu, I wonder if it exists a way to get the cpu lag…:S</div>
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</div><div>thanks ind advance</div><div>
</div><div>felipe</div><div>
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