What technologies/frameworks can be used for simple animation in the browser?

Question

Canvas

What technologies/frameworks can be used for simple animation in the browser? And how much would it cost to do something like this map.ipviking.com , given that the entire API and backend is ready?

Answer 1

something like this map.ipviking.com

There canvas, read here Objective Canvas Framework
And for a simple one - CSS3, jQuery Animation etc.

Answer 2

greensock.com/gsap