Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash

Re:Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash by antimatter15 on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:47PM (#1840196)

It's really missing the point by requiring the desktop installation. It's apparently only a "native shell for additional features" but what are those features? You can save to/load from the desktop with data-urls and the file api. I think it's because of some dysfunctional DRM that they're using.

Nonetheless, it's an extremely impressive piece of software. Not sure that CSS3/Transitions is the best tool for this, SVG/SMIL are much more suited for animation. I made a similar tool ~4 years ago (using HTML5, and Ext as well).

http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/

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Re:Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash by taitems on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @06:29PM (#1840736)

Agreed, at first glance I assumed it was a web-based editor like the Aviary suite of tools.

Being CSS3 based also threw me completely. Adobe has already demoed some great things with their canvas export functionality. One would also assume that the browser acceptance of this type of animation would be far greater than CSS3 transitions. It could even degrade to VML for older IE versions to achieve the more basic effects.

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Re:Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash by revjx on Thursday October 28, 2010 @04:41AM (#1842217)

I think the point is that CSS3 is hardware-accelerated on platforms like the iPad / iPhone, whereas the canvas isn't - it runs like a bit of a dog on those two.

I personally would prefer using the canvas though, especially if it becomes HW accelerated across the board.

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