CreateJS had an amazing year in 2014! We launched new versions of all the libraries, new branding, a new site, and a new community plan. Usage has grown in leaps and bounds. In Dec 2013, the CreateJS CDN had about … Continue reading →
The CreateJS team has been working really hard on lots of things, and we are excited to announce a major release milestone! New library release The entire suite of libraries has received a dot-update, and are now available in both … Continue reading →
A few new events have been added to EaselJS that provide additional functionality to developers. DisplayObjects now dispatch non-bubbling “added” and “removed” events when they change parents. This is going to be familiar to anyone coming from Flash. A common … Continue reading →
One of the things we have always wanted to add to CreateJS was more support for getter/setter properties. This has some limitations for libraries that need to support older browsers, so this was bumped to our “nice to have” list … Continue reading →
PreloadJS has always been treated as a “load anything” library – allowing you to preload any file type with minimal code. But due to the nature of the internet, sometimes requests need to be customized, or security flags set. To … Continue reading →
PreloadJS has evolved quite a bit since it was first introduced, and due to browser quirkiness, a huge effort has gone into edge-case handling, which has caused the code to become somewhat complicated in places. For the upcoming CreateJS release, … Continue reading →
EaselJS is a very performance sensitive library. We’ve always worked hard to optimize code as we went, but with this release we put a lot of work into not only making things faster, but actively measuring improvements, and holding ourselves … Continue reading →
At gskinner we traditionally don’t write unit tests for projects (shocking, I know). This is due to the short lifespan and agile nature of the projects we build. For a project like CreateJS though, they make sense: It’s a long … Continue reading →
It has been almost a year since we released the last tagged version of the CreateJS libraries (EaselJS 0.7.1 and friends) – so we are excited to discuss the next version, which we will be tagging on December 12th, 2014. … Continue reading →