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Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps

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Post by lekevicius »

ampersandy wrote: post #87
lekevicius wrote: post #70

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I love SMIL. Have been using it to craft custom SVG loaders for almost every brand I've worked with. Loader is usually much smaller than a gif, vector, animated 60 FPS, etc. So good.

Do you have any resources on how you learned to create such loaders? I hacked together a custom loading animation for some tools I've built just using images & css transforms, but would love to learn to make things even slicker.

Not quite, I've learned it by looking at MDN and some other samples. Maybe I'll write up a tutorial for others.

Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps

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Post by simion314 »

antoniuschan99 wrote: post #105
simion314 wrote: post #78

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>Angular doesn't provide complex controls, It did not provide simple controls either, no basic DropDown or DataGrid,ListBox. It only made super easy to make Hellpo world apps with the 2-way data bindings and that is all, when things get complex angular can't also gets super complex.

Yes ExtJS could be thought of as a component/ui framework similar to Bootstrap or KendoUI? Before Angular, Backbone was all the rage (2013) which started the whole front end framework trend and effectively killed jQuery (which was only really good for manipulating the DOM because JavaScript was so fragmented since not every browser supported the JS function... eg. IE6). Essentially Angular wrapped everything into a n…

Then IMO angular should have not do GUI part at all, rather then the bad thing they created in angular1.

Honestly I have no idea why would you compare angular with Rails, it includes some basic routing, and some pathetic wrappers for existing native functions, and the $emit/$on , what other plumbing I am forgetting ?

There are still a ton of super quality jQuery plugins for Widgets that are still used today, I seen a lot of angular code just wrapping (badly most of the time) jQuery. And on top of that angularjs used jQuery (or a lite version) too.

Did you wrote desktop or mobile application with the native toolkits ? I am curious if the misunderstandings are because if you only used Web tech then angular would appear to be something great where if you come from Desktop/Mobile you see angularjs as garbage, better then bad jQuery code but probably worse then anything else.

Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps

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Post by relaxing »

CharlesW wrote: post #102
josefrichter wrote: post #88

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Those are exactly the problems that Adobe was supposed to solve. And it’s not like it was mission impossible. I’d say everything we have today still sucks compared to Flash. Building a website with the level of interactivity, micro interactions and animations using today’s technology is super complicated and almost impossible for a single person.

> [Web integration, accessibility, and responsive design] are exactly the problems that Adobe was supposed to solve. And it’s not like it was mission impossible. "Solve" is weird in this context, but Adobe did make good progress in each of these areas, first by supporting some of them in Flash Player, and ultimately by abandoning the proprietary runtime. > Building a website with the level of interactivity, micro int…

Some people only had the skill to wield a GUI builder/animation timeline-type hammer, and deploying to the web was the only nail that mattered. For them to have access and distribution to that audience was killer, and we’re all worse off for the lack.

Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps

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Post by anaganisk »

thih9 wrote: post #114
anaganisk wrote: post #33

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Free or open-source?

Why are you asking? Could you elaborate?

Because Im wondering how an opensource digital visual effects software would be different than closed source. I can understand frameworks, privacy critical and security risk software but why such a huge software be made open source. If you are asking for Free thats a different discussion. If you want it to be opensource (with a reason) and still pay for it, thats different. My intention is not to mean people can’t afford. Genuinely curious what they’re expecting from such a huge software.
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