svg animation

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/creating-cel-animations-with-svg/

html5 banners with sprite sheets

using this to generate sprite sheets:
http://draeton.github.io/stitches/

and this to compress them:
https://tinypng.com/

this for animation, as long as I can get away with the +100kb file size:
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/latest/TweenMax.min.js

links roundup

Lots of change in my line of work, which is ad banners, animation, and front end development. This blog is mostly just a place where I save links for myself; if someone stumbles upon it, so much the better.

I'm looking forward to the arrival of web animations, but it's not in browsers yet:
http://danielcwilson.com/tags/web-animations-api/

SVG has a way to go before it's as useful as Flash vectors were, but it's interesting -
http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/blog/my-first-svg-banner-ad

For SVG I have been enjoying this podcast:
http://svgimmersion.com/

With browsers starting to drop support for Flash, we're finally going 100% html. It's still the wild west as far as specs go, but the IAB is working on it: http://www.iab.net/displayguidelines

Web fonts are a problem when you're trying to keep a banner small. Font subsetting is a must -
http://fontsubsetter.com/en-US

We're doing a lot of greensock animation and CSS transitions too, I use https://autoprefixer.github.io/ to help with vendor prefixes