software for sorting algorithms animation

I am planning on working on an interactive application that graphically animates the various sorting algorithms in action. Most of the examples of this kind on开发者_运维技巧 the web seems to be using java applets. I was wondering what other software/tools would be well suited to develop an application like this. It may or may not be web-based. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dinesh

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Do you mean like this? http://sorting-algorithms.com I guess flash would be an obvious candidate, but is bulky. That website uses gifs! I personally like it

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Flash and Silverlight are well-suited for showing such showing animations. It's should be easier to create a nice animation than with Java.

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With recent advancements in client-side web application development technologies, it's pretty easy to make something like that using Javascript and HTML5 features like <canvas>, that most of the browsers already implement. Even if they don't, there are fallback mechanisms, like explorercanvas aimed at Internet Explorer browsers.

And because it takes a simple option of "view source", the code behind the animations is much more accessible than Flash or Java, which would require to provide the source code separately.

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Done.

2nd result for Google: sorting algorithms