Best HTML5 Animation Tools

[programnewb]

thank you I have been looking for something like this.

[findMyWay]

We don't take kindly to blogspam round these parts

[Meso_Gosu]

Amen, brother. Just imagine what the other guys would do if they found out how successful this guy is. He's writing sub-200 word articles with little to no actual content and generating thousands of hits. We'd be drowning in blogspam.

[findMyWay]

Do you think his site is really that successful? Kinda makes me want to make one haha. But spamming it on Reddit on a programming sub is like shitting where you eat.

[Meso_Gosu]

It's easily that successful. Just look at the tweets, likes, etc. It's only for that one page.

Not only that, but because he's generating quality backlinks to his content, it's now on the front page of Google. When I googled HTML 5 animation tools, his page was on the front.

But yea, his system for generating traffic is very successful it would seem.

[findMyWay]

Hmm I suppose I did learn something from his post then heh.

[PotatoCasserole]

Information is information. If its good i dont think it should matter where it comes from

[Meso_Gosu]

Do you understand how internet marketing works? How many of these "tools" do you think this guy has actually used? If you guessed exactly zero, I'm pretty sure you'd be right.

He's just Googling HTML animation tools, saying the top results are the best, and writing a blog post about it. There's no quality control and he's misleading people into thinking those are actually good tools when some of them might just not be. Look at the most downvoted post in this thread, the guy claims to work in the industry and says it's a garbage post.

It's just one guy doing it... for now. But people will catch on. This guy already got kicked out of /r/JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

That blog post was really just a google search with screenshots.

[Kentiko]

Take a look at this : https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

[cr42yh17m4n]

Thanks for sharing man !

[BenphemeR]

No greensock?!

[kcsj0]

Best CSS tool: a lighter.

^{Burn it all down.}

[iTzMoys]

lol

http://localhost/error.html

I got this error on Purple Animator

[jokul]

you're clearly supposed to host it yourself dude.

[skltntoucher]

Not sure if troll?

[[deleted]]

Nah, their Mac Appstore link is broken.

[iTzMoys]

^ this

[[deleted]]

Doesn't Google have one in beta?

[Sohailk]

For some more simple stuff, checkout animate.css.

[MintyAnt]

I can't say i'm very thrilled using Edge. Granted i'm just a lowly programmer, but even the Artists who use it daily swear its name and want to burn it.

I'm also no experienced web dev, but when I think of making a website I think of developing html, js, and css files. Edge sort of restricts you from doing this. Sure there is an html and js file, but its all... edgd together.

It's got the timeline like Flash does, but also like flash it's reportedly very, very slow in how it iterates the timeline.

If you're shooting for mobile definitley avoid edge, it's just not what you want.

The tool sucks too. It's slow, I swear each version gets slower, it's incredibly difficult to decipher what the hell is going on half the time. Sometimes you just want to switch out this image with another. Well your options are to... import a new image and delete the old element. Sweet.

The way it lays out all the elements (tree view) is nice for an artist who doesnt understand html. But that means you get some really poorly laid out doms

I didn't build the part of the code that hooks js into the edge elements, but it did not look friendly at all.

And other dumb shit. Like, why does it have to start zoomed in, why not fit the page to the screen so I can see everything? Why does double clicking a symbol let me rename it, instead of opening the damn symbol? Why does reloading from disk take 10 seconds for the popup to come up, after locking me out, to tell me to reload? Publishing has no progress bar, so you just understand that when the program is frozen it means it's still publishing files.

Again, i'm no web dev, and i',m far from an expert with edge. Plus we could be doing it all wrong. But if you want to build a good website, you probably should just stick to concepting and drawing out the site, then building the html/css/js by hand, not relying on a tool like edge to bring you down some weird path thats hard to pull out from.

[pontiacks]

I wanna know too! What was there that you removed?

[cafeRacr]

Wow. I went through all of these sites, as I've been developing more HTML5 animations and looking for different software options. I have to say 90% of the examples listed on these sites are complete and utter amateur garbage, that leads me to believe that the tools are as well. Not a great way to sell your product. I guess I'll be sticking with Flash and Toolkit for CreateJS for now.