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Re: Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

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According to CanIUse.com [1], SMIL is supported by all modern browsers except IE and Opera Mini. I guess the idea is to provide an animated GIF or video fallback for those browsers? [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-smil

IE is probably waiting for Web Animations 1.0 and SVG 2 to be finalized first.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

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It is done in GWT ?

there are some details if you are interested http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/04/17/animatron-html5-an...

Thanks for the link. So the player is written in JS and the editor in Java-GWT, what are the motivations about this choice ?

Re: Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

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It is done in GWT ?

there are some details if you are interested http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/04/17/animatron-html5-an...

Very cool, I'll give it a whirl and see what comes up. Glad to see GWT. Is it Java-GWT?

Re: Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

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The first time I looked, I got the scientist standing in front of test tubes animation. Which has bubbles floating up at about 4fps on my iPad Air. Reloading showed other animations that moved at much more pleasing framerates; you might wanna get rid of that one!

On that first load I also had some framerate stuttering on the sample animations at the bottom I tried, and all of them had the loading circle flicker like crazy. Then it crashed Mobile Safari.

Looks cool though, I may try poking at it soon when I have some free time. I haven't really done much animation since I left Hollywood.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

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The first time I looked, I got the scientist standing in front of test tubes animation. Which has bubbles floating up at about 4fps on my iPad Air. Reloading showed other animations that moved at much more pleasing framerates; you might wanna get rid of that one! On that first load I also had some framerate stuttering on the sample animations at the bottom I tried, and all of them had the loading circle flicker like…

It happens for Mobile Safari for the last stable version of Player, unfortunately. But we have one newer version behind the back, which supposed to work much faster there, it's just a bit less stable to be deployed now. So yes, please don't forget about us :).
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