Beside it's not MIT, so no one will use it.
Who is using it? Last time i looked it up, it was like jQuery for animtion. What do i miss about it? Why should i use it?
Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
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Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#32Yeah, no! GSAP is not open-source → they can pull the rag on you anytime. No need for drama when we can find/generate alternatives.
You're free to use/do as you wish, but GSAP is a remarkably powerful library that benefits from two decades of very smart people optimizing it. It's very typical for someone to look at something that is only 95% perfect and declare that they could replace it in a few days or weeks, while simply refusing to learn from history (or Joel Spolsky's warnings against the big rewrite).
No. As an industry we need to start consolidating on open source tooling, we see what happens when a company breaks away from open source licenses: it hurts consumers at their detriment.
Your quote has no bearing in this context. We aren't talking about rewriting our projects, we're talking about purposely choosing open and free tools.
Also GSAP isn't even the leading animation library in JS ecosystem, thankfully.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#33Who here is old enough to know that Greensock was actually a flash library?
Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're free to use/do as you wish, but GSAP is a remarkably powerful library that benefits from two decades of very smart people optimizing it. It's very typical for someone to look at something that is only 95% perfect and declare that they could replace it in a few days or weeks, while simply refusing to learn from history (or Joel Spolsky's warnings against the big rewrite).
No. As an industry we need to start consolidating on open source tooling, we see what happens when a company breaks away from open source licenses: it hurts consumers at their detriment. Your quote has no bearing in this context. We aren't talking about rewriting our projects, we're talking about purposely choosing open and free tools. Also GSAP isn't even the leading animation library in JS ecosystem, thankfully.
I was responding to someone who said that we could "generate" alternatives, so there's still time for you to remove the unnecessarily spiteful downvote.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that fair? What am I missing?
It's a land grab that, if GSAP becomes a standard, makes it that much harder to compete with Webflow. For example GSAP will now never make its way into Figma or Framer which is a staple of the design workflows of many teams. This move by Webflow makes GSAP a line of demarkation between Figma-based workflows, Framer-based workflows, and Webflow-based workflows. Any momentum the library might have had is now skewered b…
Figma and Framer both seem to be backing https://motion.dev/ which is open-source.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#36Other fun animation sites: https://svgartista.net https://animejs.com https://animate.style https://animista.net LLMs are pretty good at this stuff too - just ask the LLM to use one of these resources when making your thing.
AnimeJS is so darn impressive. The site and documentation is chefs kiss.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#37Always cool to see more free stuff, but about the only animations I want to see on the web are from https://ciechanow.ski/
To be fair, https://animejs.com gave me the same vibe. In the sense that the author obsesses over details, while also being very educational.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#38I hope this is a reaction to Framer's rapid development in Frame Motion ( https://motion.dev/ ). Webflow and Framer are competing as site builders, so giving the animation library to everyone is like Meta giving out React.
I’d say it is too little too late. Motion already has the lion’s share and anime.js is another strong open source alternative. GSAP was quite big in its day but why would anyone invest in it today? Also Motion is no longer part of Framer.
The community for GSAP is still amazing and there’s years of forum posts for most questions you might have. Motion and anime are great but I’m skeptical that either have a lion share relative to GSAP.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#39Other fun animation sites: https://svgartista.net https://animejs.com https://animate.style https://animista.net LLMs are pretty good at this stuff too - just ask the LLM to use one of these resources when making your thing.
Interesting. "Animation" seems to cover a lot of ground, like "programming". They seem to fit into "artistic" animation, designed to be looked at, and interactive animation, and in this list mainly for UI component interaction and feedback. But in addition, animation is used for data visualization (e.g. D3 or charts.js) and game programming. Did I miss a category? Are these the right names?
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a land grab that, if GSAP becomes a standard, makes it that much harder to compete with Webflow. For example GSAP will now never make its way into Figma or Framer which is a staple of the design workflows of many teams. This move by Webflow makes GSAP a line of demarkation between Figma-based workflows, Framer-based workflows, and Webflow-based workflows. Any momentum the library might have had is now skewered b…
Figma and Framer both seem to be backing https://motion.dev/ which is open-source.
Wasn't motion.dev originally framer.motion? So not much of a surprise they are backing their own library.