As part of its general update to Creative Cloud, Adobe today announced the latest version of Edge Animate, its timeline-based tool for creative HTML5 animations. While this is one of the minor ...

Adobe Edge adds Flash-like animation to Web design The labs project lets designers use a timeline to set how elements move around a Web page, fade in and out, and transform in shape.

This is the latest step in Adobe's multi-year transformation away from Flash and toward HTML5. In 2012, the company released a range of new HTML5-oriented applications under the Edge brand.

Begin by having students draw a sky-blue rectangle the size of the Adobe Flash stage. The rectangle should occupy its own timeline layer and have no stroke. All drawn objects have two parts: a fill ...

While Adobe is rebranding to better focus on HTML5, it says the new Animate CC will continue to support Flash (SWF) and Air formats as "first-class citizens," with work already underway on Flash ...

Keyframes, which place markers on the timeline to signify the beginning of a transition, will bring the app’s features closer to those offered by other Adobe apps, like After Effects or Animate CC.

Today Adobe publicly launches the preview of Edge, its Flashless animation tool for web designers. And it’s free to download for anyone interested at Adobe’s Labs webpage.