Hype
Friday, 20 May 2011
Hype, from Tumult software, is an app that helps you create complicated HTML5 animations.
Using Hype, you can create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.
Nobody wants HTML5 to fully replace Flash more than I (and by ‘HTML5’, I mean the entire “next generation” of web technologies, including CSS3, native video, <canvas> with JavaScript, et cetera), so I can’t not dispense big-ups for creating what is essentially an IDE to replace Adobe’s authoring tools.
Then I take a look at the gallery of web pages created with Hype, and I die a little inside. They’re all just splash animations and superfluous element animations whose trendiness subsided with the term ‘DHTML’. It was a grim reminder of why Flash is horrible, but jarring proof that bad design transcends technologies.
I instantly made my mind up that HTML5 animations should be used sparingly, and if you’re conjuring an animation that is so complex you require an IDE to do it, then… well… you should not be.
