Flash Professional CC adds HTML5 Canvas Support
If you are a Creative Cloud subscriber, be sure to make note of the update to Flash Professional today. Despite being listed as a "Bug Fixes" update, this is actually a quite significant update as it now includes the ability to natively create HTML5 Canvas animations. This is done via the CreateJS library.
After updating Flash Pro, you will see the option right away in the opening dialog:
As a test, I wrote a quick and simple animation and then published it. The result - as expected - wasn't a SWF but HTML and JavaScript. You can see an example of the output here: http://www.raymondcamden.com/demos/2013/dec/3/Untitled-3.html. And of course, being HTML5 based, it works just fine in iOS:
For more information, check out the documentation and let me know what you think.
I am asking how animation is useful, fundamentally? IMHO, I see it as another shot at Flash. Kind of "its different" and "its better" gimmik :)
Um, that's kind of a broad question. Animation has been useful, fun, etc, on the web, and elsewhere, for years. If you don't see the use of animation in general then I suppose that's that.
"IMHO, I see it as another shot at Flash."
Maybe. I don't see it that way. It's an alternative to SWF but using the same powerful IDE for creating the animation.
If company wants me to use creative cloud they have to buy a license for me cause I am not going to buy it. Otherwise, there are other technologies that do not require a corporate trojan horse installed on your system. :)
"I know CC isn't for everyone.", Amen.
Raymond, thank you for all the work you do for the community.
Does this work for interactive content either ? or is it just for animations ?
and in case it does, what do you think about the performance ? is it possible to develop a game and published for HTML5 and having the same performance ?
thank you
As for performance, looking at CreateJS in general (http://www.createjs.com/#!/CreateJS), it seems very impressive.
Finally, I have succombed to the Apple world simply because Windows 8 has been such a farce and many companies are actually standardizing on iOS infrastructure for the first time ever. The reality is that we went back a decade for animation to get access to App stores which is the future of publishing.
I was wondering if you could help me I can quite easily create a HTML file canvas animation however I am battling to find some information on how I can place it into a specific allocated area inside one of my webpages. there is a ton of information about there about how to create these HTML canvas animations that nothing
how to place the code into a webpage that has already got other content on it.
Thanks
Norris
He just wants to position the canvas with CSS <canvasstyle = position:absolute; left:200px; top:100px>;</canvas>