Interesting Link

Hey Everyone,

I’m sure some of you have seen this, but I wanted to get your thoughts on the subject. A guy named Anthony Calzadilla created a basic animation without using Flash. It’s using jQuery, HTML5 , and based on Spiderman.

Here’s a link to the animation:

http://www.optimum7.com/css3-man/animation.html

And here’s an article explaining how he made it:

http://www.optimum7.com/internet-marketing/web-development/pure-css3-spiderman-ipad-cartoon-jquery-html5-no-flash.html

Speaking from a designer’s perspective, I suppose I don’t really have a preference on what happens with the whole web standards (i.e. death to flash) movement. I just want to ensure that we’ll have a tool that functions the same as Flash, but exports the web data that browsers would read. Anthony’s process here is certainly creative and a great proof of concept, but I would argue that 90 percent of designers who currently animate in Flash will have a hard time adjusting to his manual process.

Do you think it would be wise for Adobe to pursue creating such a tool? Or should they stand their ground, arguing that there will always be a place for Flash?

Thoughts?

Flash will always be around.. At least in our lives.. Yeah cool that it was made without Flash, but that animation was total crap. Like total crap even when comparing it to Flash v.1.0.

I believe javascript started replacing Flash like never before. So the importance of Flash becomes limited day by day. The only reason Flash is able to survive at present is its penetration on video and timeline based animations.

I believe it is not good that Flash like technologies grabbed by busy companies such as Adobe. Guess what happened, they have the habit of releasing products as package in predetermined time which disturbs the precious / timely updates and new releases which can lead to death to a proven / successful technology.

ToyBoatHouse said
Hey Everyone,

I’m sure some of you have seen this, but I wanted to get your thoughts on the subject. A guy named Anthony Calzadilla created a basic animation without using Flash. It’s using jQuery, HTML5 , and based on Spiderman.

Here’s a link to the animation:

http://www.optimum7.com/css3-man/animation.html

And here’s an article explaining how he made it:

http://www.optimum7.com/internet-marketing/web-development/pure-css3-spiderman-ipad-cartoon-jquery-html5-no-flash.html

Speaking from a designer’s perspective, I suppose I don’t really have a preference on what happens with the whole web standards (i.e. death to flash) movement. I just want to ensure that we’ll have a tool that functions the same as Flash, but exports the web data that browsers would read. Anthony’s process here is certainly creative and a great proof of concept, but I would argue that 90 percent of designers who currently animate in Flash will have a hard time adjusting to his manual process.

Do you think it would be wise for Adobe to pursue creating such a tool? Or should they stand their ground, arguing that there will always be a place for Flash?

Thoughts?

so with CSS3 and HTML5 we are going back to 1970s?

Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but all I could experience was 16 frames (counted using my fingers), with about 1 fps. Win 7/ latest Firefox and I’m on my pavilion (i5 cpu, 4 gb ram).

I saw this comic today, and thought that it was relevant:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-cartoons/

the idea of a tool is to simplify the work of a content creator, more complicated and more time is need to build something using a certain tool, then less likely will be for that tool to gain ground inside a developer toolbox, and more stupid it is to work with it in the first place.

in english means that, because the conservative and closed marketing politics of dumb apple and idiot steve jobes, ones should lose lots of precious hours of his life to build some alternative way to flash than can be viewed on crappy apple tablet. Those hours should be spend surfing, going out with your friends, enjoying your partner presence and whatever else that may be called better that hack and slash with some wrong tool that one is obligated to work with instead of a perfect, valid and rapid solution already available on the market, that the dumb developer already paid like the value of a f**g car for it, and can’t use because some corporation knows how imbecile his customer are, always ready to pay a lot of money on a product that can’t run more than one application at a time, else it burns out.

Anyway, the same stupid idea of internet explore 5 and 6, and not supporting valid standards for some obscure motives, well, now when one thinks like, “hey, we can recuperate lots of hours from providing alternatives of our clients websites to match internet explorer weird interpreter, hurray”, so guess what, no time free, now we work to match apple perspective on things. The creative apple way and life style, losing time and money, but in a fashion way. same as microsoft.

How was that? I’m a mac and I’m a pc.

Guess what, I will kick your * both of you.

Wow. Guess what it runs like crap on iPhone as also on FF. The only browser where it runs like it should is Chrome and even there it’s really nothing special.

It could be done in 5 minutes in flash with very simple timeline animation and with a far better result. I’m so sorry for the guy who wasted a lot of time for this useless effort.

flashedge said
Wow. Guess what it runs like crap on iPhone as also on FF. The only browser where it runs like it should is Chrome and even there it’s really nothing special. It could be done in 5 minutes in flash with very simple timeline animation and with a far better result. I’m so sorry for the guy who wasted a lot of time for this useless effort.

I think it’s because it uses webkit CSS3 animations ( which are not available in FF ) not JS

If you look at the js – http://www.optimum7.com/css3-man/js/scene_timer.js it only controls the timer of the images and no animation

Anyway, it will take another 5 years + until everybody has webkit animations in their browser

ZoomIt said
Anyway, it will take another 5 years + until everybody has webkit animations in their browser

Yeah it runs at 2 fps on Firefox lol! But even with webkit, (Chrome), it uses about as much CPU as a complex Flash Papervision swf.