As I mentioned earlier, more would happen today. I’ve just made an update. I updated the Update system to also compile (it doesn’t compress anything yet, it really doesn’t need to) CSS files. This should speed up the application a bit, and should also make it easier when updating some smaller things. As with that, it will also starting from build 83, create release archives of the CSS files. The compiler mechanism has changed a bit too, but that’s not really important.

The most visible additions, is the embedded Color Dialog. If you look at the title, you’ll find a Steve Jobs reference. Right below the huge drawing tools list (what? is it like 2 times that of the old version?) there is a Line Width slider (this is indirectly inspired by OnlyPath’s Mondrian-style color picker). it also embeds the Color Field plugin, so if you press the little button on the side, a little color palette shows up. Ideally, this will enhance user’s efficiency and be less confusing than the old one.

I don’t know if I can make a “Today’s Updates III” :P

[EDIT] BTW, the page is located at

http://antimatter15.110mb.com/animator/Animator2/build/ajaxanimator.htm

Okay, so one day i felt crazy and changed everything by 1 decimal place because i don’t want this to seem misleadingly good. I mean, if it hits a 1.0 release, then some people would think it’s almost as good as Flash 1 (futuresplash animator) which it it isn’t even near yet.

So it should be 1.5 but now it’s 0.15 :D

Read more to find out the whole list, a summary of it would be axml2, UI polishing, save space, nicer code (but still hideous), css, users, tweening, finish partially completed ideas etc.

What’s done so far

• Redesigned Register UI
• Save Lots of code
• New Save/Open file format (around 5x faster, and 10 times smaller)
• Relocating stuff
• interactive tutorials
• Backwards Compat Mode
• for the first time it’s gonna be a legitimate GPLv2 project (I’m gonna include the gpl.txt file for once)
• replaced wz_tooltips with native ext.js ones
• Change save file to computer architecture
• change organization of Save/Open buttons in file menu (submenus)
• optimized stuff
• fixed bugs
• No more save/open window (now, single-purpose dialog alerts, much better)
• Progress bars
• User friendly upload error message (yay!)
• relocate css
• delete lot’s of stuff from user-management
• REAL SUPPORT FOR LINES/ELLIPSES, lines didn’t work for tweening, ellipses didn’t work for tweening or flash, and ALL suffered from a programming error causing line-widths to be messed up.
• FastMode …and more to come

For Some Statistics and stuff go here: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5465 For Source Code: http://code.google.com/p/ajaxanimator