I just don't get that here on hacker news, on an announcement of a new version of software that someone probably put a lot of work into, the main conversation is the icon change?<p>I am sure most people here have the ability to change it to anything they want - but that is not even the point. I am a UI/UX guy and nothing erks me more than complaining about such a subjective non-important issue during product development.<p>Great work on this release tumultco. If icon complaints are your only issue, you are doing well.
Browsing through the demo gallery, I become terrified that tools like this will become popular and poorly done animations will begin saturating the web. It looks like a fine tool when used appropriately and tastefully, but that's entirely up to the user. And a long series of Flash-based sites have shown us that there are many people in the world with poor taste.<p>For the last number of years, many of us have been able to shield ourselves from blinking and moving things on the web using some kind of FlashBlock browser plugin or by not installing flash altogether. This leads me to wonder: if this kind of content becomes pervasive on the web, can it be blocked?<p>It may be possible to heuristically identify such content. In the case of Hype, easy enough. (see <a href="http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/HolidayCard2/HolidayCard2_Resources/holidaycard2_hype_generated_script.js?89177" rel="nofollow">http://static.tumultco.com/hype/gallery/HolidayCard2/Holiday...</a> for example) Adobe's product appears to use a div with an easily identifiable naming convention as well. (see <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/movement/movement.html" rel="nofollow">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/movement/m...</a>) So this is probably a good approach.<p>But part of me thinks this can be addressed at a lower level. Fundamentally what I want to get rid of is things that move of their own volition, rendering useless the adjacent content. Perhaps scripts that perform continuous DOM updates could be stopped?
I am in love with Hype and I've used it on several projects with startups and web agencies to make animated demos of mobile apps, HTML5 presentations, etc. Excited to explore these new features!
In a recent talk, Bret Victor gave a demo of an animation program where you could just click on an object (a leaf in his demo) and drag it around, and the software would record the object's position as a function of time. (His demo actually had the software on an iPad.) It was beautiful, direct, intuitive, and now I want it in all animation software!<p>Video of his talk: <a href="http://vimeo.com/36579366" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/36579366</a>
This is a minor quibble, but I'm curious: why did you change the icon?<p>I quite liked the green hummingbird you had previously. The color was maybe a bit too dark and uniform so it didn't stand out as much as it could, but the shape was beautiful and recognizable.<p>I'm not a fan of this wooden thing on your new icon. To be honest, my first association was something in an outhouse :)
I preferred the hummingbird :( Maybe we need to sign a petition to bring it back.<p>Great software though, I purchased it back when it was $29.99 and I'm glad I did it makes making HTML5 animations extremely easy.
Lovely update.<p>I hope you tackle the orientation/responsive problem soon. At the moment we show and hide a landscape and portrait version with media queries. Not the most ideal solution.