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Note: Startup Tumult's HTML5 authoring tool offers an alternative to basic Flash animation.
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Slideshow: Building The Mac Office Tumult, a software startup founded late last year by two ex-Apple employees, has released an HTML5 authoring tool for Flash developers looking to create animations on iOS devices and for Web programmers who need an elegant animation tool.
Hype 1.0 ($30) arrived last week in Apple's Mac App Store, a debut prompted in part by the near-death experience of Adobe Flash last year.
Following Apple's public opposition to Flash in 2010 and its ongoing refusal to support Flash on iOS devices, Adobe has been forced to develop ways to convert Flash content to HTML5 or native iOS apps. The company has delivered applications to assist in this process, notably software called Wallaby.
But rivals have been developing similar Flash escape routes. A startup called Loqheart, for example, offers a tool called Spriteloq to make...