Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brushes, shape poses, etc.

Re:Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brush... by MonkoftheFunk on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:47AM (#3489837)

Any future in porting it to Win? Any inspiration from Adobe Edge? I am happy that there are more and more potential replacements for flash in this respect, hopefuly this will also make it easier for versioning control and branch merges.

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Re:Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brush... by pavlov on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:14PM (#3490198)

I made a preliminary effort towards a Windows port a few months ago. It's running, but not really usable.

Here's a screenshot: http://radiapp.com/radi-windows-sshot-20110805.jpg

I haven't looked deeply at Edge since the initial release. One fundamental difference is that Radi's output is completely custom rendering into either <canvas> or <video>, while Edge uses CSS for animation. I wrote a blog post about that with lots more detail: [1]

Although there's some overlap, the approaches are basically complementary. Hence I'm hoping to make Radi into not so much a competitor to apps like Edge and Hype, but rather a more creation-oriented tool that can be used together with these other apps that focus more on building entire sites.

Now that e-books are becoming basically HTML5 packages, I'm hoping to find some opportunity for Radi in that market as well... But I haven't done any deeper research into that yet.

[1] http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/08/why-radi-uses-canvas/

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Re:Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brush... by MonkoftheFunk on Saturday January 21, 2012 @12:27PM (#3494012)

Wow nice, great Blog post, that should be a HN link in it's self! I will be watching for an windows version and keep up with your twitter/blog.

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