COMPARISON OF TECHNOLOGIES ENABLING ANIMATION DISPLAY IN DIFFERENT WEB BROWSERS

This paper presents the analysis of commonly used technologies for building and execution of animation in different web browsers. Flash is a technology that has significantly contributed to the possibilities of creating a web animation, and certainly to the development of other technologies. Over the years, a number of technologies have been developed, like HTML5 canvas, which brings us a huge amount of improvements over the old document-oriented web. The main goal of this paper is to present which technology achieves the best performance in animation execution in different web browsers. The paper analyzes execution performances of Flash, HTML5 canvas, SVG, and JavaScript animations in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome web browsers. Measurement was performed on a frame frequency - frames per second (FPS), loading time, CPU usage, file size and RAM usage. The paper also presents the source code for tests that were performed on the observed animations for measuring their performances.