A High-Performance JavaScript Animation Framework for Mobile Browsers

Abstract

Nowadays, visual effect is become more and more common in computer user interface. Since web page is one of the most extensive way to communicate between human and computer, a good design with proper visual effect is much more user-friendly. We can see there are need of the creating visual effect or animation in web environment. In the past, the developing of the web animation is very hard, because the history of the web technology is very old and there are many kind of web browsers which may behave very differently with the same segment of code. It is a very tedious job when testing the code compatibility between web browsers. The resolve this problem, most web programmer choose to use a framework to develop their project rather than create every from the ground. We can see there are many JavaScript framework or library already. Such as jQuery, which is the most common JavaScript framework for working with the DOM (Document Object Model) Element in the web page. This animation framework is aimed to help web developers to simplify the development process and also adapt the new technology and provide a corresponding fallback for the browsers do not supporting or may behave in different way. The framework can save the work of the web developer or web designer for testing the code compatibility between web browsers and creating simple web animation excellent performance with just few line of codes.