People could use SVG animations + JS to accomplish the same thing. It just never took off for some reason
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My guess is because there's no "easy to use" program that allows them to make the whole thing then export for easy web visualization, most of the people who'd make animations won't want to write down keyframe positions and code for the animation proper
They actually did, Flash is still around (now called Animate), and can export to a HTML+JS bundle you can include on your own website.
Problem is nobody uses their own websites these days, and you can't upload stuff like that to Twitter/Facebook/YouTube.
There were lots of programs for making Flash content though, and there was a lot of knowledge about how to make stuff in it. There isn't the same culture of remixing stuff now. More interactive web games are also more server dependent even for elements where they don't need to be, unlike tons of old standalone flash games
This is a great idea for a project honestly.
I guess the "easiest" way to approach it is to take a working JS game engine, like pixijs or melonjs or p5js, creating the animation editor with keyframes and whatnot, then allowing it to export as "web animation", which would be the javascript file + compacted resources
This sounds very cool. I'm a programmer by profession but used to love drawing animations as a kid. I should try to make something like this.
There is still no animation software that can match flash brush style / color or animation techniques.
Homestar wya?
Interactive Vector Animations as a web standard are technically possible, but it'd be best implemented as animation software that compiles a file/archive that's usable by a standard browser based client that renders things locally using a canvas element.
In-fact its so possible flash has been re-impmenented this way using an action script interpreter compiled to web assembly.
They didn't give you the entire kit because that wasn't the W3C's job, it was to give you the tools necessary to build the kit.
I blame Adobe.
They acquired Macromesia and just let Flash stagnate and renamed it Animate.
What about Lottie and Rive?
FrogBlender2000.swf