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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Aditi Mandal, Bothell, WA (US);
Arye Gittelman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Lionel Robinson, Bothell, WA (US);
Joy Seth, Redmond, WA (US);
Aditi Mandal, Bothell, WA (US);
Arye Gittelman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Lionel Robinson, Bothell, WA (US);
Joy Seth, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments prepare a markup language (ML) element for animation. A request to perform at least one animation on at least one ML element is intercepted or received. One or more animation preparation attribute values are defined based at least on the requested animation and current attribute values of the ML element. The ML element is altered to include the defined animation preparation attribute values, and an animation engine performs the animation of the altered ML element. The animation preparation attributes and values (e.g., style elements) may be reset, removed, or otherwise modified after animation. In some embodiments, a library of application programming interfaces (APIs) enable web browsers to request animations of legacy hypertext markup language (HTML) elements for consumption by animation engines based on JAVASCRIPT scripting or cascading style sheets (CSS).