It's been a long journey since the web was static. We took the first steps with animated GIF images, then we started using JavaScript. Then CSS came, and since then the ways of moving, changing, altering shapes and positions of our UIs have multiplies, covering a variety of approaches - from imperative to declarative, from minimal to complex.
Let's see all of them in historical order, going into detail of their implementations and their impacts on performances and user experience.