Adobe Introduces “Edge” a Tool for HTML 5!

So, Adobe is behind Flash. HTML 5 replaces Flash. Now Adobe is bringing out a tool to work with HTML 5 instead of Flash (or, more exactly, in addition to Flash… hummmmm…)

Adobe Edge Information

“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.

Edge will be updated regularly to add new functionality, stay ahead of evolving web standards, and incorporate user feedback to provide the best functionality and experience possible. This is an early look at Edge with more capabilities to come.”

PC Magazine says: “Adobe released a preview version of Edge, an HTML5 development tool that will allow Web developers to build those ‘little beautifully designed jewels on the Web featuring animations,’ according to Devin Fernandez, Adobe Group product manager. As PCMag software analyst Michael Muchmore noted, Edge is something of an acknowledgement by the premier design software house that the Web is moving away from Flash to focus on open-standard HTML5 and its many sub-standards, which are capable of creating the same effects in a non-proprietary manner via compliant Web browsers, without a plug-in.

But in a Monday blog post, Jack Nack, principal product manager at Adobe, dismissed the notion that Edge will produce a face-off between Flash and HTML5.

‘It’s worth noting that both Dreamweaver & GoLive were pushing Web animation starting in the 90’s, that Adobe championed SVG early on, and that it has been a main contributor helping to improve jQuery and lots of other HTML/JS/CSS tech,” he wrote. “Point is, Adobe’s been driving both rich, animated HTML5 and Flash for 15 years, and the company will keep evolving both to address different customer needs.’

Also yesterday, Adobe released Expressive Web, which showcases the features and functionality available with HTML5 and CSS3. ‘Look for future Edge updates as we integrate new features over the next few months, with commercial release slated for 2012,’ Brady wrote.”

Read more: Adobe Edge Tops 50K Downloads in 24 Hours

Sigh. The IBM PC Turns 30!

Talk about making a guy feel OLD! I was in the computer field BEFORE the IBM PC came out… I remember getting one at work and thinking, “Wow! How cool is this!” All 4.77 mHz (NOT GHz!) of it! Sigh. So, happy 30th, PC!

The IBM PC, One Of The Most Important Milestones In Computing History, Just Turned 30 Years Old

“It was August 1981 when IBM released the Personal Computer Model 5150. Costing $1,265, it didn’t have a monitor, parallel ports or even a hard disk. To the casual observer, it was more of a box than a computer.
But it sold like crazy, even after the wild success of other revolutionary computers, like the Apple II in 1977 and the Atari 800 in 1979.

The 5150’s open architecture and use of third-party hardware and software certainly had something to do with its success, but we can’t help but feel like the over-the-top marketing campaign with a Charlie Chaplin lookalike played a role as well.

This computer was the first one to be a truly open system — it was customizable, users could install whatever they wanted and easily write their own software. Internally, the machine boasted a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor and a 256K RAM.

Of course these specs sound like a joke compared to modern hardware, but they were groundbreaking for their time. Impressive work, considering it was designed by a team of just 12 people working out of Florida.”