So, this is Hype in the browser: http://tumult.com/hype/
hype is cool (I have bought the very first version), but html5 tech is different. hype exports to css/dom, animatron to canvas.
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#42Great - all the tools that come close to this have been flash and don't run easily on phones and tablets. I noticed it crashed mobile safari for me. Do you have plans to make this workable for non-desktop users?
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#43Nice, yeah let's make a Flash IDE in a browser, which will compile results into a real .swf, which will then play in an HTML5-based Flash player on any device. Maybe support of a few things like rtmfp protocol will be tricky, but who cares.
that would be too funny :)
but people do all kinds of crazy stuff these days, like running linux in a browser under x86 emulator written in js.
so animatron tech is very very conservative from that perspective :)
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#44Great - all the tools that come close to this have been flash and don't run easily on phones and tablets. I noticed it crashed mobile safari for me. Do you have plans to make this workable for non-desktop users?
yes, mobile has top priority! most of the simple staff works, but some animations don't. we are working really hard to fix all the issues.
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#45This looks like a really full-featured and powerful animation tool! The tutorial movie was very impressive. The gallery[0] has some good looking examples, but they all run very slowly (1fps) in both chrome/firefox on my MBP. Not sure why performance is so poor on my machine. One thing I couldn't figure out from the site is what their revenue model/pricing plan is. I saw that guest accounts are active for 15 days, but…
Thanks for the compliments! Not sure about what's causing the fps issues, but we're definitely investigating. At the moment, there aren't any limitations after you sign in - Animatron is free, and the only difference between a registered account and a guest account is that guests can only create one project (which is only saved for 15 days). Pretty soon we'll be rolling out a few different paid-subscription plans tha…
Similar issue on the FPS using Firefox 24. It all loads (once I let JS do its thing) and can be interacted with (made a quick little movie of a box dancing around, but its like watching a slideshow. With a few optimizations to speed up interactivity, this would be really cool.
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#46Why are passwords limited to 16 characters? That's unnerving.
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#47that's the kind of user friendly killerapp that made flash so ubiquitous, because everyone and his mom were able to make animations. While i love canvas, it's downright impossible for non-programmers to do any of the footwork that is needed to create even the most basic animation. i will certainly keep an eye on this project, great job
thanks!
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#48I really like that it's using GWT too! You don't often see much GWT apps these days.
yeah, we had internal debates whether to use gwt or just js, gwt side won and we (most of us!) do not regret it :)
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#49Looks interesting but an authoring tool is not something I want to run "in the cloud" and be dependant on a connection and a service that may or may not be there when I need it.
Wouldn't invest much time in a tool that is not available for download, to be honest.
Nevertheless it looks well done.
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#50What video formats can I export to?