Sencha Beats Adobe in the Race for the 1st HTML5/CSS3 Animation Tool

by Dio Synodinos on Oct 03, 2011 |

Sencha released Animator, a tool for creating CSS-based animations, that lets designers create interactive HTML5/CSS3-based animations that run smoothly on desktop and mobile devices, without requiring a plug-in.

Sencha Animator enables designers to leverage Web standards and create, cross-platform animations for WebKit browsers, Internet Explorer 10, and popular touchscreen mobile devices. “CSS3 animations offer both cross-platform and performance advantages over JavaScript- and Flash-based animations on mobile devices,” said Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha.

Sencha Animator extends Sencha’s tools, enabling the rapid creation of HTML5 and CSS3 assets:

Create complex, plug-in-free animations for rich-media ads that run on any CSS3-compatible ad network.

Powerful, intuitive, drag-and-drop development environment.

Full CSS3 support, including animations, 2D and 3D transformations, backgrounds, borders, font effects, and more.

Interactive timeline and intuitive object property controls.

Manage sequencing, grouping, easing, and other effects with a familiar timeline interface.

Create custom interactions with the familiar JavaScript language.

Export animations to readable HTML.

Ensure high-fidelity playback on the Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry Torch, BlackBerry PlayBook, Google Android-based phones and tablets, and Windows 8-based tablets, and take advantage of hardware acceleration, where available.

Supports ORMMA Level 1 (open rich-media mobile advertising), open standard for rich media ads for mobile devices.

Available on every major desktop OS (Mac, Windows and Linux).

Sencha Animator costs $199 per seat and volume discounts are available.

It is worth noting that Adobe has been previewing a similar tool, codenamed Edge for about a year, but hasn’t been able to deliver a final product yet.

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There is another... by Andrew T Posted

An online alternative to Sencha Animator by thelliez thomas Posted

Re: An online alternative to Sencha Animator by Pavel Filippov Posted

There is another... by Andrew T

I think you've skipped Tumult's Hype tool, released earlier this year: tumultco.com/hype/

An online alternative to Sencha Animator by thelliez thomas

I found a very nice alternative to Sencha Animator. It is an innovative free online service called eenox . The platform allows to create CSS3 animations and interactives HTML5 webpages for mobiles, smartphones and computers. You can focus on design and create great web documents even if you are not a developper.

If you are interested, there is the url : eenox.net/

Re: An online alternative to Sencha Animator by Pavel Filippov

Just checked the eenox.net. For free you will host up to 1000 Visitors number/month. It is a very few I would say. Even the Premium ($15/month) gives you maximum up to the 50 000 visitors/month. Good idea, but not suites quite well for the websites with the traffic above average.