I recently came across Christian Heilmann’s Five things you can do to make HTML5 perform better article, where point number three is to use CSS Transforms instead of position and top/left when moving elements across a page. It is a practice increasingly championed, such as in the noted Paul Irish video, Why Moving Elements With [...]
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CSS Filter Effects in Practice
Setting a filter effect like ‘blur’ or ‘saturation’ on an image using CSS can create an interesting tech demo, but what’s the point? Why go to the trouble to manipulate an image in the browser when it can be easily edited in an image editor? When we added CSS filter effects to Tumult Hype, we [...]
Tumult Hype 1.6.1 Update Released
We’ve just released Tumult Hype version 1.6.1! Thanks to all our users for bug reports and sharing awesome animations with us. Go grab this update. The 1.6.1 update includes some important bug fixes and is recommended for everyone to upgrade. The most important note about this release is that we’ve changed the “.resources” export folder [...]
Final Day for Tumult Hype Sale (Sale is now over)
(The sale is over. Thanks!) Today is the last day of our 15% off sale. If you were waiting to grab Tumult Hype, today is the day: Grab it on the Mac App store! We’re also pleased to announce that Tumult Hype licenses may be bought with Bitcoins (learn about Bitcoins here). At this time one [...]
Announcing Tumult Hype 1.6 with Filter Effects
Tumult Hype is the award-winning HTML5 animation builder for OS X. It has been used for all kinds of different projects, like infographics, porfolios, NASA roadmaps, mobile ads, greeting cards, museum kiosks, children’s books and much, much more. Our new update, Tumult Hype 1.6, contains 35 new features and has several bug fixes and performance improvements. We are beyond excited to get it in your [...]
Tumult Hype Bug Fix Update: 1.5.2
Today’s Tumult Hype update resolves a number of bugs, implements Dropbox’s new sharing and authentication method, and makes Tumult Hype even more stable. Minor fixes for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Retina displays Workaround for Chrome/Safari 6 issue where scenes flicker images when using Dropbox Fixed issues where z-ordering may be incorrect inside [...]
Notes on Tumult Hype’s Cross-Browser Compatibility (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Almost Not Hate IE6)
One of Tumult Hype‘s top strengths is the ability to output content which can be displayed on a wide range of browsers across desktops, phones, and tablets. We put a lot of energy into making sure animations look great and run smoothly on Internet Explorer 6 to the latest Chrome 18. Apologies if we made [...]
Tumult Hype 1.5.1 Released!
It’s our pleasure to announce the release of Tumult Hype version 1.5.1. This update features: Option-clicking the per-property add keyframe button will add keyframes to all properties on selected elements Copy/Paste scenes Bug fixes It is recommended that everybody upgrade. Please visit our detailed history page for more information.
It’s a big day: Tumult Hype 1.5 is here!
We’re pleased to announce the release of Tumult Hype 1.5! With Adobe recently dropping support for Mobile Flash, Tumult Hype has become a critical tool to making animated content for smartphones and tablets. This version is a major update containing over 30 new features, including: Export as iBooks Author widget Redesigned animation interface separating element [...]
