Mike-O-Matic » A CSS Crossfader Demo

For a long time, people looking to introduce animations to their website needed to resort to a third-party plugin such as Flash or Java applets to get the job done. The recent rise of AJAX and DHTML have changed the argument substantially. Semantic web programming, CSS, and Javascript form a powerful platform which can be tweaked by a knowledgable developer to do all sorts of cool things.