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CAAT a JavaScript animation toolkit (hyperandroid.com)
74 points by antichaos on Nov 24, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



Wow: WebGL, CSS/Dom and Canvas renderers.

EaselJS has been considering it[1], and even Three.js has it[2], but as Canvas gets more widespread and Hardware acceleration by default, these multiple renderers may not be that helpful. On the other hand, how long until then?

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/easeljs/renderer/...

[2] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/


Looks really, really promising. If somebody could make a nice GUI for non-coders, this would be a pretty good replacement for lots of applications where Flash is the only choice now.


I've been working on a HTML5 animation app called Radi. It supports both <canvas> and <video>. It's available as a free beta:

http://www.radiapp.com

(The app is Mac-only for the moment, sorry.)


I was curious who was driving the development of this and noticed the author is the CTO of Ludei.com, a company that's pushing for HTML5 as a universal game dev platform.

They author a product called CocoonJS that then converts your CAAT project into native mobile apps. Neat stuff.

Edit clickable link: http://www.ludei.com


Hi all.

just for clarification, cocoonJS is not focused only on converting CAAT projects into native apps. CocoonJS aims to execute your canvas based javascript games/applications 'inside' a native application, which means there's no cross-compilation. The javascript code is evaluated at runtime untouched, and must not be CAAT based.


This is fantastic, and it's weird coincidence that I woke up this morning with an insatiable appetite to make a canvas game!


looks very nice)


Finally, finally -- someone did it right. Well done.


What does this offer over processing.js?


Ah, i see, scenegraph which processing lacks




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