It always a treat to find some spare time to check out the latest product releases. This week I have been checking out the preview release of Adobe Edge, a new animation tool that outputs animations using HTML5/CSS3 and JQuery.
The driver for this product is of course the general decline of Flash based animation due to the rise of low powered mobile devices. And while Edge doesn’t actually produce anything that you couldn’t do manually, it’s easy timeline-based interface is a real time saver when producing javascript animation.
The preview release has somewhat limited functionality but it’s stable and easy to work with.
You can view a number of examples produced using Edge on the Adobe website.
Of course, animations produced using Edge can only be viewed in browsers that support the latest HTML5/CSS3 technologies and that (as ever) means that Internet Explorer will be an anchor that holds this product back somewhat (IE9 is the minimum requirement).
I think this product has great potential though and is one to watch for the future.
