Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: >> There are surely practical difficulties, but the notion of increasing >> transparency or fading (quite different things) are easily handled in >> CSS. > > Or Javascript or Java. In my view Javascript is best avoided in the world of web design, although someone might well disagree. I"m not sure how Java would be relevant. > Fading is interesting--what if the grandfather in the on-screen tree, > along with all his ancestors, cycled, fading from one possibility to > the next? > > I've seen images doing that, and acting as variable links at the same > time, so that if you click on it, it knows which image you clicked on. It is perhaps likely that the fading images you have seen were created with Flash. I don't have the computor environment (or the money) to play with Flash, so I'm not sure if it can couple a sequence of images with different links. Someone with knowledge of Flash might chime in with better guidance. People who work in web design might point out that a lot of images that change on screen can quickly give the viewer a headache and is a distraction best avoided along with popups. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM