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The images are queried by Ajax to the server, where a Fast-CGI Perl script generates, caches, and sends the images. Javascript is used, obviously for the Ajax job, for some small visual effects, and to generate the CSS code.

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You should port this project to canvas. It may be tricky to get it working in all browsers but the response time would be much faster and the server load would be reduced. I'd be willing to help with the implementation- sounds like a really cool project.

Yes, this would be a nice adding to the output formats.

I don't think I'll implement that in the near future, but I keep it in the back of my head for later, and I'll contact you when the time has come :-)

Thanks for the idea.

Slide the old button image vertically and put the new one in its place. I'd like to be able to compare the before and after. Also, while it's sliding, I'm distracted from waiting for the new one, but don't make me wait for the slide to finish if the new image is ready to display.

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