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The Case of the Disappearing Number - On a current project we were experiencing an issue with a specific numeric ID not working correctly. After some exhaustive debugging, we isolated it to a bizarre phenomenon that manifests in both AS3 and Javascript: a missing number.

TweenJS: Animate, Tween & Sequence in Javascript - TweenJS is a new library for coding tweens, sequences, and animations in javascript. It has a simple but powerful API that uses chained method calls to create complex tweens...

Music Visualizer in HTML5 / JS with Source Code - It's no secret that I like building music visualizers, or that I've been playing with HTML5 a fair amount lately. Given that, I thought I'd combine the two interests, and build a music visualizer using JS, the canvas & audio elements in HTML5, and the EaselJS framework.

EaselJS v0.3.2 Released - I'm happy to announce the release of EaselJS v0.3.2. It provides a few new interaction features, cleans up the docs, and fixes some known issues. Here's the full list...

Zoë: Export SWF Animation as EaselJS SpriteSheets - We're releasing the first version of Zoë, a free Adobe AIR application for exporting SWF animations as sprite sheets (single images containing a grid of animation cells), including frame data for use with EaselJS. This means you can use Flash Pro to lay out your animations then very easily prep them for use with EaselJS and the HTML5 canvas element.

EaselJS v0.3 Released! - I'm very happy to announce that version 0.3 of EaselJS has been released. Even better, it's now on GitHub, so you can fork it to your hearts content. This version makes it even easier to build compelling content using the HTML5 canvas element and javascript. It has a rewritten rendering engine with...

Update on EaselJS v0.3 - EaselJS v0.3 is going to be a very significant update. It will include: ... I originally expected to have this version released this week, but I've broadened the scope of what I'm changing. Given that, I anticipate the release will push out to next week some time, but I'd like to believe it will be worth the wait.

EaselJS v0.2 Released for HTML5 Canvas - I'm happy to announce that I've just released EaselJS v0.2. The focus of this release was on making drawing vector shapes and text to the HTML5 canvas easier with the new Graphics and Text classes.

Pirates Love Daisies HTML5 Game Launches! - I'm extremely excited to announce the launch of one of our recent projects: Pirates Love Daisies! A HTML5 based tower defence game using canvas, audio, embedded fonts, local storage, and our new library EaselJS.

Easel JS Simplifies Working with Canvas in HTML5 - The new Canvas element in HTML5 is powerful, but it can be difficult to work with. The Easel Javascript library provides a full, hierarchical display list, a core interaction model, and helper classes to make working with Canvas much simpler.