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Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Really nice work. A flash-like canvas animation is due gain popularity in the near future.

Your fill-bucket tool is a little freezy, as I'm sure you are aware. I made an HTML5 static image editor http://yangcanvas.com/paint and I found a good fill-bucket tool hard to implement too. Your tools does fill ranges perfectly, which is really nice. Good luck making that work more efficiently without sacrificing precision as I did.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#53
post #49

Looks 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.

For me, it would be enough to see their paid plans...

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#54
post #49

Looks 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.

Slightly off-topic... Sorry.

If you don't mind me asking, what country are you from?

I ask because I find this strange, since here in the San Francisco bay area, I find it difficult to get 'away' from an internet connection. They're everywhere I go, whether I want it or not. I carry an internet connection on my smartphone and can tether to it whenever I need it. The only time I can't get an internet connection is when I'm in the middle of the woods, and that's just because I'm not paying for AT&T.

Having authoring tools "in the cloud" is the premise for many great services such as Google Apps, Microsoft Office apps, Facebook, Wordpress, etc... Being able to do something as cool as HTML5 authoring without having to invest hundreds of dollars in some Adobe product has great value to many... especially students or young poor people that want to learn and don't want to pirate software to do it.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#55

Really nice work. A flash-like canvas animation is due gain popularity in the near future. Your fill-bucket tool is a little freezy, as I'm sure you are aware. I made an HTML5 static image editor http://yangcanvas.com/paint and I found a good fill-bucket tool hard to implement too. Your tools does fill ranges perfectly, which is really nice. Good luck making that work more efficiently without sacrificing precision as…

thanks! you have made a nice tool yourself!

yes, the bucket sometimes could be slow/freezy. mostly because there are still some problems in the algo. our editor works with vector, so all operations including bucket basically create new vector shapes based on current geometry. it does not do bitmap fill.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#56
post #54
post #49

Looks 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.

Slightly off-topic... Sorry. If you don't mind me asking, what country are you from? I ask because I find this strange, since here in the San Francisco bay area, I find it difficult to get 'away' from an internet connection. They're everywhere I go, whether I want it or not. I carry an internet connection on my smartphone and can tether to it whenever I need it. The only time I can't get an internet connection is whe…

I'm in London, UK.

I develop on the go a lot, so I do find myself very often with either faulty connections or no connection at all.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#57
post #49

Looks 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.

For me, it would be enough to see their paid plans...

we will be rolling it out in a month or so. but there will always be free plans along with paid ones.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#58
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, it would be enough to see their paid plans...

we will be rolling it out in a month or so. but there will always be free plans along with paid ones.

That's good to know - but I was more worried about you being able to go on than about the free plan ;)

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

#59
post #49

Looks 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.

thanks!

there are two ways to address it. first of all we will add offline support at some point, so you can work offline and when you are online it will sync itself with the cloud.

another possibility we are considering is just to wrap it up into multiplatform desktop app which is technologically not is difficult to do these days.

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