Are there methods for manipulating images in JavaScript that would allow me
to write functions to rotate, skew, mask and resize images (bitmaps)?
The functions need to be fast enough for use in a top-down scrolling game.
Or would I be better off preprocessing all of the images with something
server side such as PHP and then preloading them into my JavaScript already
manipulated?
The only thing I don't like about the idea of preprocessing the images is
that I will have to preload a very large number of images, ie all of the
sprites rotated at different angles, resized at different sizes etc.
I am considering using Flash but because it would involve learning
ActionScript I would prefer to do it with a combination of JavaScript and
PHP. The other alternative that I was considering was using SVG, but not
many people have an SVG capable browser or have downloaded the SVG plugin.
Would also appreciate any links to resources that would help me with this
sort of thing. TIA!
Jul 23 '05
21  8508 
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:20:21 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: I'm a bit uneasy about the notion of long pre-load times. Users can get
mighty impatient :-) I think you'll find Java will be quicker. [...]
You're wrong, it takes much more time to start an (external) Java Virtual
Machine than to invoke a (built-in and maybe already running) script
engine. Your JVM may be started when you log on, but mine[tm] is not.
That converstaion was discussing the load
times of the *images*. The options were either..
a) load image 1 & 2 and using Java to
fade/change between them, or ..
b) load image 1 & 2, as well as an image for
each part of the transtition between the two,
and using JS to cycle the images.
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JRS: In article <11************ ****@PointedEar s.de>, dated Sat, 11 Sep
2004 19:20:21, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Thomas 'PointedEars'
Lahn <Po*********@we b.de> posted : Ian Sedwell wrote:
On 2004/09/06 21:22, in article SF************* ********@news.x tra.co.nz,
"Nik Coughin" <nr***********@ woosh.co.nz> wrote:
Please do not write attribution novels by replicating header information.
Ignore him.
For current thinking on this matter, current thinking is visible in
work-in-progress http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/...-useage-00.txt
and http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/...article-13.txt
See also the references via sig line 2 below; unlike TL, TS is a
respected authority.
Lahn has not noticed that the need to correct his misguided and
dictatorial statements used more resources than reducing attributions
could possibly save, even ignoring the utility to many of us of having
fuller attributions. The situation is in fact not unlike that of his
ancestors two-thirds of a century ago (and 90%, too)
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