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

#82

I still use the tiny lightning fast Macromedia Flash 4 to make simple animations, when its just simple animations, without all the script power, features and Photoshop integration you get with the Adobe 2 Gb in disk elephant. I used to run this Flash 4 in a Pentium 133hz with only 16 MB RAM and it wasn't that slow. I was waiting, wondering why didn't someone bring something like that for HTML5 yet, and Finally it is…

You're welcome ;) thank you for the kind words!

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

#83
post #72

I'd love to try this out as I've been looking for something like for a long time. But I can't use it because I can't sign up with a password longer than 16 characters. This is a rookie security mistake that I see over and over again and makes me worry. As a rule of thumb, you should NOT limit the length of a password. Salting will take care of the weak password problem and a long password is, well, the securer the be…

Correct assessment - wrong solution. If you hash your passwords the stored result will always be the same fixed length. Do that (which you should anyhow for security reasons) and you don't need to mess with changing your database.

Yep you are right, it's late here on a Friday night and my brain flashed bcrypt and scrypt's differing lengths for a second. Now that I looked back I was like, the hell? LOL oh man thanks for the correction.

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

#84
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Their about page says the company is 15 people… so they must be already going on somehow anyway ;)

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

#86
Just had a short look at the video right now, going to check more, but looks good. Is there a way to embed the video in a blog post? Would like to blog about it and embed the video. When I right-clicked on the video, it had an option to copy video URL, which I did, but that results only in the link to the video, not the embed code.

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

#87
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…

Data plan is still relatively expensive in the U.S. $30 for 3GB from AT&T. Can you trust the security of free wifi hotspot? What if you want to do work on a bus or on a train ride? What if your home network is down? A lot of people work remotely from home and they rely on home connection. If this has localstorage and sync that'd be nice. Does it?

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

#88
post #86

Just had a short look at the video right now, going to check more, but looks good. Is there a way to embed the video in a blog post? Would like to blog about it and embed the video. When I right-clicked on the video, it had an option to copy video URL, which I did, but that results only in the link to the video, not the embed code.

Cool, thanks! Here's the embed code:

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

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post #88
post #86

Just had a short look at the video right now, going to check more, but looks good. Is there a way to embed the video in a blog post? Would like to blog about it and embed the video. When I right-clicked on the video, it had an option to copy video URL, which I did, but that results only in the link to the video, not the embed code.

Cool, thanks! Here's the embed code:

Thanks for the fast response. Will write the post and update the comment here with the link to it.

BTW, typo in your embed code: missing an "http:" in the value of the src attribute. Works after I add that, not without it.

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

#90
The tool looks great and everything was really well done, but who is the customer for this?

It seemed like it was for non-designers but when I open the editor I get a blank canvas and I have absolutely no idea where to start to make a professional looking animation. Seems like I would still need to hire a visual designer/graphic artist who would most likely use the tools they are already familiar with.

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