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hakermania
August 3rd, 2011, 08:52 AM
This is the link: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3836040#3836040

All linux fans that would like to have this HTML5 tool that actually makes flash look like a kid, comment at the link above!
With some luck we will be able to have it :)

Legendary_Bibo
August 3rd, 2011, 08:54 AM
I still don't even know what Adobe Air was for.

What is this exactly?

hakermania
August 3rd, 2011, 09:06 AM
I still don't even know what Adobe Air was for.

What is this exactly?

From the site:
Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.



As for Adobe Air, I am not quite sure but I used it to play a big flash game (it was a dependency)

Copper Bezel
August 3rd, 2011, 09:09 AM
So if I'm understanding that correctly, it's not that browsers would need a plugin to display the content or anything like that - it's more a replacement for the side of Flash that makes Ponies once Flash goes out of style than anything to do with stuff like the Flash player plugin or Air.

kaldor
August 3rd, 2011, 03:07 PM
I still don't even know what Adobe Air was for.

What is this exactly?

Air was supposed to be a flash-based cross-platform runtime for developers to make interactive applications with. Basically, the same idea as Java. Obvious reasons as to why it did not take off. I'm probably mixing something up with this, but that's the general idea behind it.

Adobe Edge for Linux would be awesome for some of the web developers out there who only have a dual-boot so they can use Adobe stuff (currently my situation right now due to college).

hakermania
August 5th, 2011, 01:11 PM
Nice, there are lots of 'commenters' :)

sffvba[e0rt
August 5th, 2011, 01:14 PM
Adobe...

3rdalbum
August 5th, 2011, 02:12 PM
This is the link: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3836040#3836040

All linux fans that would like to have this HTML5 tool that actually makes flash look like a kid

Highly doubt that it "makes flash look like a kid". Flash does more than just play Youtube videos; it's a full multimedia suite and I don't believe that HTML5 has the capabilities to do half of what Flash does.

I'd like a multimedia authoring tool, especially an HTML 5 one that allows you to do cool and useful things. If it was available on Linux, that is - if not then I don't care. But it's unrealistic to say that it can do more than Flash.

hakermania
August 10th, 2011, 06:19 AM
Highly doubt that it "makes flash look like a kid". Flash does more than just play Youtube videos; it's a full multimedia suite and I don't believe that HTML5 has the capabilities to do half of what Flash does.

I'd like a multimedia authoring tool, especially an HTML 5 one that allows you to do cool and useful things. If it was available on Linux, that is - if not then I don't care. But it's unrealistic to say that it can do more than Flash.

if not, i hope it will

rerooting
December 21st, 2011, 06:42 AM
Realtime video editing in HTML5, you say? Well heres an example of a recent implementation:

http://mbatle.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/illusions-in-the-web-a-real-time-video-editor-built-in-html5/

grahammechanical
December 21st, 2011, 03:52 PM
I do not care if Adobe produces a Linux version of a product that codes websites with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. I care if I need to run an Adobe product just to access websites built with Adobe Edge. I care very much if the necessary Adobe product does not have an up-to-date Linux version and I have to pay anyway.

The UK Met Office has a weather widget that looks great and I would like to use it but it is developed using Adobe AIR. It requires the AIR runtime to be installed. No can use on Ubuntu.

If Adobe Edge performs the same trick then I do not care if there never is a Linux version.

Regards.

rerooting
December 21st, 2011, 06:12 PM
I don't know where people got the impression that anything that comes out of Adobe Edge requires Air to run. The outcomes of Adobe Edge projects is straight CSS3, Javascript and HTML5. No funny Air stuff (though it may require Air to run the application).

The trouble with Adobe Edge and almost any attempt that Adobe makes at getting into actual web development markets is that, even if its all in the hot new standards, Adobe is still going to do it in their own ****** way, and it will potentially lead to a sweep of shoddy, poorly implemented CSS3/Javascript animations that will only serve to degrade an awesome new standard.

If you really want to have fun with animation and vectors on the web, without using flash, check out these libraries:

Raphael.js
Paper.js
Three.js (And WebGL in general!)
Spritely

Gaming Platforms:

http://craftyjs.com/
http://impactjs.com/
http://cloudmach.com/


etc. etc.

Anyone who thinks that HTML5+Javascript+CSS3 is moving along too slowly should remember what it was like when flash was still in early adoption...

If anything, a CSS3/Html5/JS animation studio that was open source, was incredibly pluggable and modular, and also adhered to the highest of standards with graceful degredation, would be a FAR better option than letting Adobe take a crack at it. I have searched for something of this nature, but all I can find are cheeky little blog posts about Edge and how cool it looks.

In fact - lets think about this - should we be asking for something like this to be made available for Linux? Why the hell is it a desktop application anyways? Wouldn't it make more sense to actually make this a web based application - eating its own dog food, so to speak?

It will be interesting to see how all of this pans out.