Thursday October 20th, 2011
One consideration I've had lately when drafting some plans on how I can grow Aninote.com, is that there is a chance that Flash may have an end of life. There are also a number of Apple devices that do not, and may never support flash, which is required to view Aninotes. Even though the finalized HTML5 standard is still in its infancy, and not even due to be finalized until 2020+, Apple and others encourage its use as an alternative.
I have been working on the Aninote HTML5 animation engine for about a month straight now. I've animated You Are Mighty with it as an early functionality test. I have some long term plans on what I'll be using this for, but for now my short term objective is to make it so all current and new Aninotes are viewable to people with modern devices that do not have the Flash plug-in. If you wish to have a look at it, and have Firefox, go to 'Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins', and disable 'Shockwave Flash' before viewing the You Are Mighty Aninote. I've tried to make it the same as the original version, and believe I have been very successful in that attempt.
For any geeks or designers interested in HTML5, I can say after building a HTML5 player from the ground up that flash for full screen animations is still far superior. Mainly, because HTML5 Canvas is much slower (unlike what Apple suggests), and using javascript to build synchronized animations is painful. Making web applications on the other hand, I can see the real potential in using it.
I may change my opinion after I finish learning ActionScript 3, but I doubt it.
When I'm done what I'm working on, I'll be able to craft new Aninotes, animated 100% with code (and science!) supporting both Flash and non-flash browsers. This means I will be able to make them significantly more dynamic.
Please let me know if anyone has trouble viewing You Are Mighty moving forward, especially if you have flash and could view them before.
- Robert
Friday September 16th, 2011
Why Hello! I'm back!
After being around for over 5 years, Aninote.com ceased to exist entirelly due to a number of reasons. I was fairly burnt out with all of my various Internet projects as I bit off a lot more then I had time to handle, and our Internet Service Provider decided to upgrade their billing system, causing our infrastructure to go offline without notice. About a week ago, I was starting to search through the Intarwebs about some of the things I used to run/do, and I was feeling regretfully nostalgic about my old defunct Aninote project. I took notice to various sites and groups had posts throughout the past few year and even recently with hoping the service could return once again. Challenge accepted!
It can't say that it's perfect, but I've worked hard to restore everything to become fully operational once again, keeping things as true to the original site as I could. I've even finished some half-developed features, and made other minor improvements were I could. All of my old domains were left to expire in time, so I've had to work around that. The domain names won't look as cool, but putting everything under Aninote.com provides me a lot more freedom on what I can deliver without spending hours searching whois databases, and paying out for domains. I'm fairly pleased with the result. All Domains will also support more fluid conventions, such as http://Michael.Allen.Will.Be.Defeated.Aninote.com (willbedefeated.aninote.com also works). With a bit of work, I can make it so Dynamic Aninotes can be custom, and make it so YouAreMyLove can be Dynamic.
My goal was to bring the site back online and fully functional, which I've done. I have a lot of small and major improvement ideas in my head for the site, including additional Aninotes, but what I actually do depends on the interest people show for the site, if any. There may be a few kinks, so please report any bugs or unexpected errors you see.
- Robert
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