Animated character stroke order
In August 2004, before the Chinese-Russian Center’s character dictionary was even a year old, we added stroke-order displays to entries, using material from ocrat.com. This approach had several drawbacks: relatively few animations (just over 2,500), an inconvenient animated GIF format that browser settings could prevent from animating at all or allow to play only once, for example during loading, and rather small images.
The Chinese-Russian Center has introduced another stroke-order animation system that creates animated Flash files on the fly from stroke-order data for each character stored in a MySQL database. See the improvement yourself using the character e, which, among other meanings, is an abbreviation for our country (俄, é).
As always, we would be extremely grateful for reports of shortcomings, improvement suggestions and any other feedback on our work.