banner links today

Who are the ad servers? What should we be using?

https://advertising.amazon.com/ad-specs/en/policy/approved-3p-ad-servers

http://www.bannerflow.com/

http://visionmedia.github.io/move.js/

display advertising not going away

In fact it's growing:

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/US-Digital-Display-Ad-Spending-Surpass-Search-Ad-Spending-2016/1013442

acceptable ads

https://acceptableads.org/  — get your ad whitelisted for Adblock Plus. No animation allowed.

HTML5 banner dev link roundup

Google’s HTML5 Toolkit

http://www.richmediagallery.com/resources/html5-toolkit#h5ToolkitPath:%2Fhtml5%2Ftoolkit~

Grant Skinner’s take on using CreateJS for banners:

http://createjs.com/html5ads/

GSAP banner forum:

http://greensock.com/forums/forum/12-banner-animation/

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