Why using expensive programs like Adobe Flash to create your stunning webpages? It's not needed anymore, because Tumult has come up with an application to make HTML 5 webpages as simple as you make a PowerPoint presentation. It almost works the same as PowerPoint. There's only one thing more, it has key frames. You can manipulate your animation to the nearest frame. The tools that make this even better are the ability to see which browser version supports the animations you've put into it, the aligning tools and even more simple but awesome tools that help you to make your perfect website without having any knowledge of programming.
However, programmers will be very pleased by Hype as well. Making website elements with it will be so much faster than hand coding. And testing your result is also really faster, because of the key frames. Hand coding is possible, so if there function not yet implemented, you can add it yourself by hand though. Another great thing is that all the export files are html, css or javascript files so you can watch all the html5 content on your iPhone, iPad or Android device.
Unfortunately, Hype is only available for Mac OS X. That's missed opportunity if you ask me and there is no big chance it's coming to Windows soon, because it's built in Cocoa. The price of Hype is 30 dollars at the moment. This is just a limited time, so hurry if you can't wait. It's only available in the Mac App Store. To feel the strength of this program you have to see it in action, so here is the gallery of Hype and I'll post the intro video below.
To end this post, I'll stay with a final question: Will Hype stay a hype like any other application or will it be revolutionary and be one of the programs of the future? Tell me what you think.
[UPDATE]
I have added two additional tutorials about Hype. The first one is a Getting Started tutorial and in the second video the creators of Hype will show you how the keyframes bar really works and they give you some tips.
4 reacties:
It's early in this product's life, but they need to do a MUCH better job with documentation. And they need to make it a lot easier to integrate into your website or your JavaScript into their app. You can do it manually, but then the preview feature won't work and changes you make get overwritten. If you copy and past their DIV into your page template, you have to just assume that it won't change as you make changes to the document. If it does, you have to copy it again. Instead they should let you use your own template. They need to document how to work with JavaScript within their app. For example, you can write your own JS, but they don't let you change the arguments that a script can receive. They could handle this by adding an optional array argument to each function. That way, if I want to pass into to a function, I could do it by reference. I can't figure out how to call one of their functions from another function. There's no support for audio. Audio is problematic with HTML 5 especially on iOS, so I can understand the delay. Speaking of iOS, they need to add support for adding your own meta tags. If they just let you use your own index.html template, that would take care of it.
Maybe they aim for the more simple users. So they don't have to manage all those, quite complicate, features. But hopefully they will of course. It would be stupid to pass over all of the developers which cannot wait until Hype is functioning as it should be. Thanks for your critical look :)
I have been using Hype for a few days now, and coupled with the app "Delivery Site" it makes a very powerful multimedia tool. This is exactly what I have been looking for, a way to create self-contained multimedia presentations (not websites or applications) without having to go through all the trouble of the appstore. Now I can create interactive presentations for my clients and they can run with them instantly... using images, text, animation, video and sound (in a movie). It's more like having macromedia Director on the iPad albeit a very simpler version but in some ways, that's fine because the whole ethos of the iPad is simplicity. Also remember, this is a v1 app... to try and bolt on a number of extra 'coder' features is to misunderstand this app... because it you know how to use Photoshop and you know how to use AfterEffects and you have been building interactive apps for a while in something like Director... you will get on great with the limited functionality... all this app needs for me is 'go to previous/next keyframe' buttons as having to move the playhead to the keyframe is a little tedious... and it would be nice to be able to scale the stage window or separate the timeline from the stage... and to also be able to zoom the timeline... other then that it does everything it needs to.
what about sound?
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