Comments on: Adobe Edge: Wrong technology, wrong job

By: Felix Hornoiu .com

Felix Hornoiu .com — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:22:00 +0000

I work in aftereffect animation and in most of the time I embed a vimeo clip on the web. This tool is great and yet had a lot of things to improve.

Blur, color overlay and almost all AFX function should be embeded.

I dont care about coding, I am a visual thinker, I didnt liked math in highschool.

By: bloodnut

bloodnut — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:55:00 +0000

I think Adobe Edge is the new best thing when it comes to creating interactive web design It’s for designers who don’t do code. This allows designers can focus on design and not worry and stress about all the code, script jave etc… i love working and learning in Adobe Edge. And i think people are only waking up to it now..

By: Zaker

Zaker — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:14:00 +0000

Not that I think the previous individual will ever read my post but her (Edge) beauty is only skin deep. Though I think that Edge has a place in thie new world to bridge a divide largely created by apple, the truth is that she is currently a very poor substitute. There is currently no tool out there still today that does everything that flash can do with the support and market adoption that Flash has. JavaScript, JQuery and all the other things still don’t have the classes or support across browser or platforms the way that Flash did. For a serious interactive web experience Flash still has no rival. For simple animations, drag and drops, animating divs, sure go use Edge. But if you thought that is what Flash was for you were missing the boat to begin with.

To all those who revel in Flash’s demise, you have no idea what sort of mess you have created for the rest of us. The days of content running in on plugin across all browsers and platforms looking working almost the same are over. Congrats. Now to support a video you need 4 different formats, the asme with audio. Oh, and the support for the audio and video doesn’t work well on half the browsers. JavaScript debugging sucks, development time has doubled and now what I have built doesn’t even work on half the browsers because the support isn’t there. Why did we ditch Flash again? Because Apple got a bug up their ass about performance, or was it because Adobe spanked them when FLV took over the web as the main video format? Give this a thought, most of the sites on the internet are garbage, broken and run poorly, why didn’t Apply block us from going there? So, enjoy your crappy mis-matched web experience for the next 10 years.

While Flash has been doing all the heavy lifting for games, audio and video javascript has been sleeping in and partying. My clients want HTML5 to do all these great things on the web that Flash can do and I have to tell them they can’t start a video on page load of their iPad because video require a user click to initiate. I have to tell them that their iPad won’t play more than one audio track at a time or that audio loop support doesn’t exist across the other 70% of the browsers. JavaScript code is where Flash was 10 years ago and it is going to take javascript 10 years to catch up.

By: David Yeager

David Yeager — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:49:00 +0000

LOL, Edge is this? No no, Edge is more like Adobe’s Apology for Flash and DreamWeaver. They denied the world a ton of content by developing extremely complicated programs that did not function in any way similar to any other program in the genre. Simply, hundreds of thousands of hours, if not millions, were spent learning awkward backdoor roundabout ways to do things instead of creating useful content.

As someone who thinks the know Dreamweaver on Monday and then runs into another issue that simply makes no sense, but can use any other editor on the planet without a glitch…. I applaud Adobe for bringing to market tools that allow a new designer to start creating quality content in their second week, instead of second year and still find themselves scratching their head 10 years down the line.

In addition, cheers to CS6 Creative Cloud. As a small high end design and development company the prospect of investing $7k / designer for the Master Suite stopped us from hiring several people, now… if they do not work out or if work slows we can just shut off the $50/mo ($30 right now) which has allowed us to hire 2 more and their additions have increased business to the point we are now looking to add more.

Adobe, with products like this and their new business model, has become an ally of our company instead of a begrudged necessity.

I still think that their UX team and their Dreamweaver Dev Team need to meet and they need to do some serious work on the UX of their own sites before they assume the role of a UX authority.

By: nickenino

nickenino — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:11:00 +0000

Learn english, learn to read, learn to understand what you read. Apple killed flash for its own sake

By: Me

Me — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:15:00 +0000

Flash has dead! HTML5/CSS3 kill it. Dont fuck Adobe!

By: applestalks

applestalks — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:48:00 +0000

all i know is my 5 year old daughter loves my little pony games in flash and that she cannot use them on a mobile platform. tears. it is NOTfor geeks to dictate to families how they should enjoy themselves.

flash was great: the whole My Little Pony cartoon series was animated in it! Looka t it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h40JA99Wz0

All the Adober edge example are JERKY with just a few ‘hello world’ ballons. Sure Flash hammered the CPU, but that was because it was performing a complex task.

….. the ‘click this ad’ cabal are reducing our lives!

And they ususally just produce a bland white personal site with WW3C approved in the footer…

By: Juanjo Haro

Juanjo Haro — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:43:00 +0000

I’m crurrently developping e-learning material in FLash with complex system of control and interface to communicate with the learning platform. Now the client wants to see this material in the damn apple devices (wich can perfectly run Flash except for Apple decision) My skills in actionscript are good but i have no idea of html5, css, jquery and i even don’t know where to begin and problaby my job depends on it. I have discover Edge who can, at least, create a decent control interface and animation for what i do so I love this program.

The html5, the css and the jquery are to make webpages and is lightyears far from Flash in web app creation. Flash is dying? Then why in the fwa.com the most webpages from big entertaiment industries, or designers are made in flash and the have ios app too? Why Facebook declares to park html5?

This languages are standard. Jesus, in a tutorial website i see 3 groups of code lines to move a square, one for Firefox, one for chrome and one for OPera (ie9 not support the animation)… writting a code for every navigator? In my learning works, some animations can take 10 minutes long in the timeline. How the hell is suppossed to code this? If flash dies, which i doubt, the production time of some projects will increase a lot.

Now, i’m looking desperately how to make forward and rewind audio buttons to get syncro with my animations and i don’t find nothing about it but tutorials about combining html5 with js with jquery… please, in flash, i just have to put the audio in the time line and if i press the foward button, there is syncro…

Html5 is for simple webpages and silly animations.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:16:00 +0000

I do think that these kind of tools are great. I don’t have a lot of programming knowledge and they work perfectly for me. A5 HTML5 Animator (www.a5-animator) is similar. I have tried it for free and I like it.

By: Win

Win — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:10:00 +0000

What about people developing e-learning and m-learning solutions who are are desperately looking for Flash-like capabilities still missing in HTML5? I feel that my creativity and the learner’s experience is cut-short now that Flash is parked. Hooray for a new tool that strives to get all the Flash tools into HTML5!