jquery advice or help converting flash to jQuery

Question

Hi,

I was task to convert a something like this flash file into jQuery...

any help or advice? it should be html 4. I'm not new to jQuery so if you have links that I can use to help me build this would be appreciated..

thanks,
Reigel

edit: update/progress

okay, as jAndy suggested, I found this for rotating images

Answer 1

First 10 seconds it's a nice watch, but every second beyond is boring.

To accomplish that just with javascript / jQuery, one would need to load & cache like 500 images. I'd create an object/class for each image which stores coordinates, rotating angle, speed, img source etc. and finally fire those into some animating object/class.

Looks very possible with javascript, but I guess just the DOM is too damn slow to handle this, so your only choice here can be canvas. Since you mentioned just to use HTML4 I don't think this is a task which can be fairly done.

Actually I would recommend a library like raphael or cakejs, but again, all those are using HTML5 canvas to render images.