Website Animations Run By Syntax Alone: A Rising Trend

Historically, interactive animations that dynamically respond to client input have been constructed mostly in web animation programs like Adobe Flash and exported as SWF files, which web browsers then load along with the rest of the contents of a given page. Recently, however, the potential of animations that are rendered manually by the clients' web browser programs using nothing but syntax has been increasingly explored and realized. Visual effects defined in terms of both their basic appearances and their animations as scalable vector graphics are being produced by HTML markup and CSS syntax working in unison. JavaScript syntax can be added to an SVG animation either sparingly or profusely to complete all of its functionality.
An SVG animation being showcased on the visual design website Dribbble is hosted on the interactive website codepen.io, where visitors can see an effect resembling the skyline of a city being viewed from an isometric perspective. The effect involves a persistent background animation involving a small hot-air balloon flying among several shifting clouds. In front of the background is a collection of static vector graphics resembling urban skyscrapers; the skyscrapers are grouped into several layers that dynamically shift up or down at different rates of speed from each other as the user moves their browser's scroll bar vertically along the page.
The codepen.io interface offers an option to let the viewer see the syntax being used to illustrate the effect. This reveals that the majority of the syntax is made up of path-related coordinates located within the HTML file behind the page. On the other hand, the CSS file involves a much smaller amount of syntax that is primarily concerned with the dimensions and specifications of transformation elements, and the JavaScript used on the page simply instructs the browser about how sharply these elements should transform as the window is scrolled vertically along the height of the page. As an SVG animation, none of the elements decrease in fidelity if the viewer uses their browser's Zoom function to magnify a given element very closely; this quality contributes to SVG animation's growing popularity. For more information click here https://dribbble.com/shots/5034526-City-Skyline?utm_source=Clipboard_Shot&utm_campaign=ajayns&utm_content=City%20Skyline&utm_medium=Social_Share.