# Invisible Formatting Tags are Evil

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**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/invisible-formatting-tags-are-evil/826 "2006-05-08T00:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/invisible-formatting-tags-are-evil/826/22 "2006-05-09T00:00:00Z")

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Please, tell what tool you did use to  
make that kind of gif-based animated demo ?

In this case, it’s Camtasia, but I’ve used gif-gif-gif before for similar effects. Check out the Donation Coder roundup of screencasting tools for more options:

[http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/ScreenCasting/](http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/ScreenCasting/)

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