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Correct me if I'm wrong. It sounds like Keyframes is like "Flash runtime", the differences are you author your animation in After Effects, and the output is JSON (instead of SWF).

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Yes, that was also my first thought. Keyframes animations were pretty much one of the earliest features of Flash. Used those nearly 15 years ago. However Flash was/is not limited to that, since it's also a completely programmable.

Since Adobe moved quite some effort away from Flash and towards HTML I'm pretty sure that they would now also support exporting keyframe animations from one of their standard tools into a native browser format.

Doesn't hurt to have competing standards. Also the major issue with Flash was the execution environment, not the file format. Running Flash inside the browser opened up all sorts of security holes. This just uses javascript to manipulate shadow DOM elements. Pretty standard practices in a modern JS framework.

It would be great to finally get back the true programmable animations that we had with Flash so many years ago. It took a while, but things to be coming full circle--for the better.

It's bascially the same as for UI components. Adobe had the great MXML based Flex framework back then.

The web world only slowly catched up, and I think it took until the current gen of frameworks (angular2, etc.) to be at the same level. However the good thing (as you also pointed out) is that the new variants are based on standards.

Well, it's missing the interactivity part.

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