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The editor on makemake.io is very impressive. You just picked a tough crowd to show this to... everyone here cares about the semantic web and has nothing but c

by mrieck 12y ago

The editor on makemake.io is very impressive. You just picked a tough crowd to show this to... everyone here cares about the semantic web and has nothing but contempt for the "all-flash" websites from 15 years ago. You should really try making a CSS3 version that just puts z-indexed img and div tags in an relative positioned container and animates the x/y. Then people could insert their semantic HTML and animate it however they want. If you go that route you could even allow people to create small widgets/components. Say you want a crazy/animated sidebar but don't want to break the rest of your page... you could just open up your editor and work on just the widget and export code to drop that widget into your page. Overall I think this is an awesome project. I'm also coding a huge HTML5 editor project you should check out when it launches... http://www.superanimo.com http://www.superanimo.com It's more of a competitor to GoAnimate/PowToons than your startup. I think HTML5 canvas is underutilized in the startup community so I hope both of our projects take off.

santoriv 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have an early access/mailing list signup on your site where I can drop my email? I also thought about doing the same thing in DOM with Famo.us but I found after some experimentation that the performance wasn't good when you had a lot of objects on the page. Canvas animation perf scales reasonably well. Regarding widgets, I think maybe you are talking about something like http://themeforest.net/item/quasar-wordpress-theme-with-animation-builder/6126939 http://themeforest.net/item/quasar-wordpress-theme-with-anim... I think you can also do that sort of thing with Adobe Edge or Google Web Designer. Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I'd like to see your project when it's completed. :-)
- mrieck 12y ago
  I'll add you to the small list of people I'll email when SuperAnimo is released. I don't have a mailing list. I hate signing up to lists that are all talk about an unreleased product... I rather just show people when it's ready. I have a full-time day-job so I can't work on it as much as I want, but I should have a rough version live at the end of next month.

by mrieck 12y ago

santoriv 12y ago

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have an early access/mailing list signup on your site where I can drop my email? I also thought about doing the same thing in DOM with Famo.us but I found after some experimentation that the performance wasn't good when you had a lot of objects on the page. Canvas animation perf scales reasonably well. Regarding widgets, I think maybe you are talking about something like http://themeforest.net/item/quasar-wordpress-theme-with-animation-builder/6126939 http://themeforest.net/item/quasar-wordpress-theme-with-anim... I think you can also do that sort of thing with Adobe Edge or Google Web Designer. Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I'd like to see your project when it's completed. :-)

mrieck 12y ago
I'll add you to the small list of people I'll email when SuperAnimo is released. I don't have a mailing list. I hate signing up to lists that are all talk about an unreleased product... I rather just show people when it's ready. I have a full-time day-job so I can't work on it as much as I want, but I should have a rough version live at the end of next month.