JavaScript to control image animation?

Question

I\'d like to have an animated character on the page, with different animations for different behaviours. I currently have two ideas for how it could work:

IDEA 1: Ha

Answer 1

Idea 1 won't work, as JavaScript has no way of controlling the current frame of an Animated GIF - neither across browsers, nor using some specific (ActiveX / Mozilla specific) extension that I know of.

I think you are left with Idea 2. I don't know how smooth the results are that you can achieve with this method, though - you'd have to test.