Microsoft Liquid Motion was a product from
Microsoft
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to create
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...
animations. It was based on technology acquired from Dimension-X. A beta was released in 1998, and version 1.0 was released soon thereafter to compete with
Macromedia Flash. The product was eventually discontinued by Microsoft in 2000 due to lack of popularity.
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Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...
-based animations, they were cross-platform and browser-independent.
See also
*Microsoft Vizact 2000
Microsoft Vizact 2000 is a discontinued program that allowed creation of interactive documents using HTML+TIME, adding effects such as animation. It allowed users to create dynamic documents for the Web. It was preceded by Liquid Motion. Vizact ...
*DirectAnimation
DirectX Media is a set of multimedia-related APIs for Microsoft Windows complementing DirectX.
Retained Mode was used by a variety of applications and can still be implemented on systems newer than XP by copying the ''d3drm.dll'' file from an o ...
*Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich web applications, similar to Adobe Inc., Adobe's Run time environment, runtime, Adobe Flash. A plugin for Silverlight is still available for a v ...
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Liquid Motion
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