My OperaHTML5 Drag and Drop
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 3:55:47 PM
The NEW Opera Browser.
Does anyone know what this feature is supposed to do?
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/9122/demo.html
I had some half baked idea that it was a new way to use javascript without using java script.
I already cant use: http://makeagif.com/ which is a gif maker that requires Flash or whatever it is called. I don't really know what the difference is between javascript and Flash. I only know I finfd Flash adverts the most annoying thing on the Internet and I would kill all of the Adobe directors just for that abomination if I could.
All right, perhaps kill is over the top. Blind and emasculate them and make their families slaves for the rest of their lives -and the lives of their great grand children for ever and ever amen?
So far I have got through some of the graphics available to me in Linux:
Blender
F-Spot
Gimp
Inkscape
Open office Drawing
Scribus
Shotwell
Simple Scan and
Stop Motion.
If the drop down menu boxes in Blender are anything to go by, the interface is HORRIBL and probably more complicated than a luser like me will ever find out -never mind "know".
As for the rest, only Gimp and Stop motion seem to have the facility to make animated Gifs.
If anyone has had any experience with them could they oblige me with a demo on how to knit together some weather charts.
This animation from the Australian meteorological Office (BOM) is lumpy. Too fast to analyse the behaviour of the air and too slow to see the beauty of the system.
I am old enough to remember Op Art from the 1960's. The chart animation is very much like the sort of thing that was fashionable in those days of 5 international Business Machines being adequate for any computing needs.
You must be 
zrafatdjmd1 # Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:52:49 PM
Weatherlawyer # Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:20:25 PM
I was trying to get http://makeagif.com/ to work in the latest Opera but I haven't got Flash on it. I was hoping to learn about the Linux tools. Have you tried out any of them yet?
That link will only allow 20 frames but you can download them all at once just like Opera's albums.
Gif Ninja was the one I used before. I will have to look at that. The Antarctic charts have 27 charts per day. Not that you need any more than 5 days worth really.
Anything more and the forecast becomes a wish more than a likelihood.
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BTW, how are you finding Opera on Linux?
I imagine there will be no such thing as an operatng system the way we think of them on Desktops in a few years time.
I think that the whole of the web will be a cloud event and all office-ware will go the same way as things like animations. If it does than we will only need phones.
People will think of us desktop users the way we think of people who used the old 78s and wind up gramophones. I can't see me changing though.
zrafatdjmd1 # Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:27:29 PM
Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:
Lol! I could think the same about you.Recall Michael, I don't use a desktop machine but a very portable minilaptop. I don't like internet on phone. Too limited indeed.
None jelousness at all.