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Adobe Edge Prototype Demo
Looks impressive but from the demo the UI appears to be Air or similar to the Flash parts of the Flash IDE, judging from the dodgy tooltips and font rendering. Now thats perfectly fine for a prototype, but from my experiences with the non-native elements of the Flash UI and the Fireworks UI are horrible to work in.
I’m not saying all UIs should be Aqua or Aero, I mean I love the After Effects UI. *I’m just saying they shouldn’t be running in a vector engine originally designed for cartoons and slideshows.*
Wonderfully articulated, emphasis mine.
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I hope Apple and the Great Jobs knows what they’re doing. Such movement by Adobe is indicative of a much greater problem: a lack of trust in the Apple platform. Mike Chambers, Adobe big-wig and master of all things Flash, speaks frankly on this blog about the atrocious state of affairs: “I think that the closed system that Apple is trying to create is bad for the industry, developers and ultimately consumers, and that is not something that I want to actively promote… We are at the beginning of a significant change in the industry, and I believe that ultimately open platforms will win out over the type of closed, locked down platform that Apple is trying to create.
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Adobe pulls the plug on iPhone, ceases all Flash and AIR development
I’m willing to give Sebastian the benefit of the doubt here in the long-term, an open platform may eventually be the best option out there but these open platforms need achieve a focused level of maturity for user experience only Apple is bringing to the table right now.
That said, Flash is hardly the starting place—nevertheless the holy grail—of the move toward an open, mature and polished experience platform. The only ones who lose in this situation are Adobe.
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In a response, Apple indicated its preference for a variety of up-and-coming standards that collectively compete with what Flash can do.
“Someone has it backwards—it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary,” said spokeswoman Trudy Muller in a statement.
HTML5 is a revision to Hypertext Markup Language used to describe Web pages; CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to format Web pages; and H.264 is a video compression technology used in streaming video among other areas. Adobe isn’t totally removed from these technologies, however: its Flash Player includes H.264 support, and its AIR technology has built-in HTML and CSS support through inclusion of the WebKit browser on which Apple’s Safari is based.
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Adobe scraps work to bring Flash apps to iPhone | Deep Tech - CNET News
Apple isn’t exactly the biggest proponent of open standards all the time, as we know from the iPhone App Store, but they’re exactly right here. Adobe is every bit as closed about their own proprietary formats and Apple is pushing the web toward the better long-term standards.
