Finally Adobe introduces a new tool to its creative family suite of software for creating animated web content using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Currently a preview, Adobe Edge is available free for download for the next couple of months. Not only is this a much needed response from Adobe, necessary to keep up with the web. But also an inherent need for animation on the web without having to rely on such piggy back technologies such as Flash, which plagues the open web, and slows down our mobile devices with memory hogging websites, and worse annoying animated banner ads.
There are other applications that have already gone this route, despite Adobe’s ability to create a tool that will better work with all its standard graphic tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. However times have changed, and there’s a recent surge of great javascript based plug-ins just waiting to be downloaded and used within an app such as this. Can Adobe rustle up this already-in-place community of developers in opposition of it’s own dominating close-sourced Flash tools?
