I am looking for a program to replace Flash CS6 Pro, which I have used over the years. I create simple, non-interactive animations. As many clients now demand delivery of html5 files, I can no longer use Flash (nobody seems to want the animated gifs that it can produce, any longer). Can Wick Editor reliably export to html5? And can I import either Adobe Illustrator, or SVG assets into Wick Editor?
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Hello there, welcome to the forum. 
There is an HTML export here. Whether or not it’s html5, i don’t know. I think it is.
Thanks. I read somewhere else a complaint that the playback timing in html was all haywire, but think that this was for a previous version of Wick Editor.
wickeditor uses javascript to render elements in a html canvas so it’s fully compatible with html5
you can import svg elements tough some features are missing at present (eg. shape gradients)
importing svg with unsupported features will create some issues in your animation.
better check with an empty project but usually it works pretty well
when I found wickeditor I made a test animation you can find here
almost all graphic elements are .svg files imported from inkscape
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Thanks for the response. I’ll download wickeditor an give it a try. I just got fed up with being held hostage by Adobe, and didn’t want to pay monthly subscription fees for Animate. Thanks for the info about svg files- I do use a lot of gradients, so hope to see some software adjustments that would support their use, in the future. Nice penguin animation!
they also have an online editor
Thanks- it can’t hurt to give it a try!
the eidtior version is better than the downloadable version. i would still download it just so that you can still use it in case wickeditor.com goes down.
but the online editor has pre-made assets and a in-new-window preview which is really useful.
the only time it goes down is when there is a major update like from legacy to alpha so to fix that they made them different sites
I hadn’t realized that you could use the program without even downloading it. I am so used to Adobe, and their effort to wring every last penny from their users, that the concept of a free service is hard to grasp. Let’s hope that, once the program gets really spruced up with successive improvements, it isn’t bought out by some greedy company that wants to kill the competition. Happens too often.
Good news @kimjohnsonhusu, we made Wick Editor open-source so that even in that event anyone could host their own version
If you want to support our work, you can check out our Patreon or Github Sponsors Pages
i have a version of 1.9 on my website accualy just incase it goes down too. but i usualy still find myself using test.wickeditor.com still