html5 animation: Flash CC vs. Edge Animate?

[HermanPW]

I've been using Flash for many years, and am now creating html5 animations. Just curious, why would I want to use Edge animate to create html5 animation, when I could just make an animation in Flash CC, and then export as html5 canvas? Do both Flash and Edge basically render the same thing (in terms of html/css/js), or are there differences? Thanks!

[UDESCO]

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[fepe]

check this out:

Update about Edge Tools and Services | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

Edge Reflow (preview), Edge Inspect and Edge Animate are no longer being actively developed

[Colin Holgate]

It's good they use the term "flagship" with Flash Pro, that keeps it in the running for gaining Edge Animate features. But, calling it a vector animation tool only refers to half of what it's used for.

[stealtheh]

Adobe Flash will be renamed to Adobe Animate.

Adobe Link, click here..

I am assuming that Adobe Edge Animate will be consumed by the new Flash/Animate because they are no longer updating edge services and tools.

[rosebudd]

No, Edge just won't be getting any new features. Flash CC will be getting new features AND it will be renamed because it is at its heart an animation tool, that Edge never came close to replacing.

[sinious]

Edge Animate could never do those things because it's limited to what JavaScript can do. Perhaps one day an authoring environment will come out that wraps WebGL in such a high level way we could even scratch the surface of the SWF's capabilities but right now the net is going through a dark ages rift. It's fine, this sort of thing happens over and over and over. And the postering of Adobe Animate as a top end contender for HTML5/Canvas could mean a nice upswing in the products usage once again.

I for one hope the new marketing angle takes off. While I'm over the hurdle at the moment, the JS framework soup out there right now is just terrible. There's hardly a framework you can rely on existing a few months let along for the long run. This is somewhat specific to animation but even information frameworks are subject. Back to the days of developing your own to fill in the gaps.

The huge push to client side processing sure can ease the back end but with Google having the (if at all) best JavaScript parsing spider, all this front end emphasized data loading is going entirely unnoticed or unparsable by spiders, hurting SEO, the same way Flash always had an issue with it.

I continue to use Flash/AIR for any desktop 2d/3d interactive animation and interfaces that cross my path. I've learned far too many JavaScript frameworks and now that I'm over that time sucking hump I'm still not happy that SWF could have done everything I'm doing now far better and easier while running smoothly on mobile devices. All the front end single threaded pressure from JavaScript lately is, in all my profiling, killing your mobile battery.

[W_J_T]

^ The launch of this whole thing looks rushed (even if its described as beta), the examples should be a lot more polished as it looks amateurish, pricing is questionable. Greenosock is not that hard to learn, thus why would someone need a front end to leverage it? Just my 2 cents.

[rosebudd]

Doing simple animation in Flash CC Canvas/Adobe Animate is not difficult. There is zero coding required. You don't even have to do this.stop(); you can uncheck loop.

You have motion guides, motion presets, animated masks, and lots of vector creation tools including using any font you have by breaking apart your text, and rendering it as vector data in Flash CC Canvas/Animate CC, all missing from Edge.

[rezun8]

the IAB is currently working to have Greensock included in the standards for all online banner ads as we speak. If it gets approved greensock as well as other libraries will be able to be incorporated and not have their file sizes count against creative. Head over to both Greensock and IAB for more info on this.

https://greensock.com/html5-banners

[just.emma]

Most ad serving companies already host both Greensock and CreateJS on their CDNs, and don't count them against file size for banners.

For example:

HTML5 Shared Libraries – Sizmek Help Center

DoubleClick hosted JavaScript libraries - DoubleClick Creative Solutions Help