{"id":746,"date":"2024-02-07T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2024-02-07T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:23:34","slug":"compare-web-animation-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/compare-web-animation-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare Web Animation Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looks like the nice folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/sparkbox.com\/\">Sparkbox<\/a> put <a href=\"https:\/\/sparkbox.github.io\/bouncy-ball\/#lottie\">this animation comparison page<\/a> together a few years ago. I love how extremely comprehensive it is. Of course we can animate things on the web with CSS, and there is a whole JavaScript API for it, and loads of JavaScript libraries all with different characteristics, but don&#8217;t forget things like video or a GIF! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a senior developer means having a strong sense of the paths you <em>could<\/em> go down, so you can make educated choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the nice folks at Sparkbox put this animation comparison page together a few years ago. I love how extremely comprehensive it is. Of course we can animate things on the web with CSS, and there is a whole JavaScript API for it, and loads of JavaScript libraries all with different characteristics, but don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-animation"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/animation-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}