Steve Jobs never really loved Adobe Flash. The omission of the technology from Apple’s mobile iOS platform was one of the examples of that. Flash was slow and hard on battery, so Apple decided to start pushing HTML5 technology, that could achieve the same goals, but without the CPU and battery strain. And they somehow succeeded because flash is less and less popular every day. Designers either don’t do animations at all anymore, preferring simpler, more usable sites,or make them in jQuery and HTML5.
The only problem so far has been the fact, that to make anything “moving” with those tools you needed to be a programmer, while Flash had a nice little 700$ application, that any designer can use to create. Well now that has all changed – A small company called Tumultco has released Hype – HTML5 authoring tool, that’s easy to use and you don’t need to put in ANY lines of code for the animations to work.
You can buy it (mac version) in the Mac App Store for the introductory price of just 29$!! That’s 660$ cheaper than Flash! Get it while the price tag lasts!
Here are some examples of the technology in use:
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