I’ve been working on a site for a client and, of course, he likes all of the flashy, well, flash sites out there. He wants something similar but I’m trying to stay away from flash if possible. I thought using an animated banner .gif would be close enough. What do you think? I basically need to rotate thru a number of header graphics that I put together. Not anything fancy.
Should this work well enough or will the animated .gif not give me enough customization options as far as timing, etc?
Another option would be to use CSS and JavaScript to basically hide and reveal different images in the same location of the browser window.
GIF does support options like timing. With the Microsoft GIF Animator you can take full advantage of the format. But what GIF does NOT SUPPORT is complex graphics with more than 256 colors and semitransparent Pixels. I suggest using an APNG and for bad browsers use a javascript to make a PNG slideshow like TPBM suggested