the flashy side of adobe edge

THE FLASHY SIDE OF ADOBE EDGE

Joseph Labrecque

D2WC | May 17th 2012

Joseph Labrecque, MA

University of Denver - OTL Senior Interactive Software Engineer Adjunct Faculty

Fractured Vision Media, LLC Proprietor

Twitter: @JosephLabrecque Web: http://josephlabrecque.com/

How many are familiar with Flash Professional?

How many are familiar with Edge?

Adobe FLASH

• Desktop browsers via Flash Player! • Windows, Mac, & Linux via AIR! • Android browsers via Flash Player! • Android apps via AIR! • iOS apps via AIR! • QNX browsers via Flash Player! • QNX apps via AIR!

Flash is EVERYWHERE!

What the hell happened?!?

November 9th 2011

Community Fallout

HTML vs. Flash / HTML & Flash

Adobe: “FLASH IS NOT DEAD”

photo via Grant Garrett - @InfluxisGrant

Adobe EDGE

Why Edge?

image via Lee Brimelow - @leebrimelow

HTML & Friends

Adobe Edge Prototype

Edge Today

Similarities

The Edge Stage

The Edge Library

The Edge Timeline

Keyframes in Edge

Edge Symbols

Edge Preloaders

Publishing (sorta)

Differences

Editing Code

The Timeline

Clipping Images

Embedded Type

The Content

Working together

Edge Masquerading as Flash

Flash Masquerading as Edge

Keyboard Shortcuts

Re-Appropriation of Assets

Photoshop

Illustrator

Fireworks

Flash Professional

Edge

Generated PNG Sequences

Sprite Sheets!

Edge Preloaders from Flash

Mistakes of the past

SKIP INTRO

http://www.jasondasey.com/

Unnecessary Content

http://zombo.com/

Edge appropriate-ness

• Landing pages • Advertisements • Micro-sites • Banners • Interactive content • Animation

When is Edge most useful?

Appliness Web Ads

<iframe src=’http://appliness.com/code/banner/’ width=”468″ height=”60″ frameborder=’0′> </iframe>

Edge in-appropriate-ness

When not to use Edge…

Edge is a hammer. Flash is a wrench. HTML 5 is a screwdriver.

- Tom Green

Thank you.

@JosephLabrecque

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