For a nice overview of how to use Edge be sure to check out Mark Anders' Edge overview movie on Adobe TV. If you're a Flash developer looking to expand your repertoire to include HTML, CSS and JavaScript animations, Edge just might help. While Edge is a long way from a finished product, this early release shows considerable promise. Review the permissions that the extension requires by navigating to edge://extensions.

Test the extension and understand how it works in your organization. If you've got strong feelings about where Edge should focus its efforts, head over to the forums and let Adobe know. Install the extension from the Microsoft Edge Add-ons website or the Chrome Web Store.

A Mozilla developer raised this question in the Adobe forums and Adobe's Mark Anders chimed in to say that, 'we seriously considered canvas, but current performance on mobile browsers (especially iOS) is very bad.'Īnders goes on to note that iOS 5 will remedy much of iOS's canvas performance woes, and Adobe is clearly looking for developer feedback on where to go with Edge. Why go with div and CSS-based animations when there's Canvas and SVG? Well, for one thing, this is a very early preview and Adobe claims that eventually Edge will support canvas and SVG (in fact Edge already has some support for importing SVG file). In its current form Edge will export your animations using div tags, some CSS animations, a fair bit of JSON and a combination of jQuery and some custom JavaScript to hold everything together. Both Hype and Sencha Animator claim to be 'HTML5' animation apps and, like Adobe, neither generates much of anything that isn't in the HTML4 spec. Adobe is hardly alone in its misleading use of the HTML5 moniker. Despite Adobe's marketing efforts, there's almost nothing about Edge that is HTML5.

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