In this post, we will talk about how to use sprite sheet animation png file and JavaScript file to make animation in the HTML5 canvas. Last time, we talked about how to generate the sprite sheet animation in flash. In that post, we are using Flash cs6 to generate a sprite sheet .png files as well as a JavaScript file which can be used directly in the HTML5 page to render the animation in canvas. Here, I will show you how to do it. First of all, let’s the animation I have made in HTML 5 canvas by sprite sheet and JavaScript. The amazing part is that it can work well in iPhone and iPad just because it is HTML5!

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In the past 10 years, Gif and flash are the best format to show the animations on web. Gif can represent the simple animations with a very small size. Flash support more complicated animation with logic control. We can find hundreds of thousands of animation resources in these two file formats on the internet. However, the web technologies keep changing from time to time. The old web technology standards can not meet the current needs of our daily internet activities. HTML 5 was standardized in 1997 but it got focused till Google engaged in web browser development and Apple iPhone, iPad took the browser market share.

Now, HTML5 is encouraged to be the next HTML standard. Animations on web pages are no longer a big problems for current browser technologies. Therefore, more and more browsers refuse to support the flash player plugin to improve their security and performance. In html5 website, we can use Sprite Sheet technology which is traditional 2D game animation technology in the past 20 years. To reuse our GIF and Flash animation resources, we can convert them to Sprite sheet format and do the sprite sheet animation by Javascript in HTML 5.
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