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Actually there were no HTML5 stuff shown in the demo, I can code those effects to work with IE6. In fact that demo may even work in IE6 if you would include som

Actually there were no HTML5 stuff shown in the demo, I can code those effects to work with IE6. In fact that demo may even work in IE6 if you would include some hacks.

bradleyland 16y ago
This is not so much an endorsement of their methods as it is an acknowledgement that they're paying attention. Adobe has a lot invested in Flash, and their willingness to produce tools like this shows that they're not so buried in their own proprietary technology that they'll cut their nose off to spite their face. That may sounds like a basic assumption, but many companies, especially large ones, frequently do just that.
- 8ren 16y ago
  Adobe is an unusual large company, in that it has successfully managed the transition between closed and open before. Starting with the fonts for postscript printers, just a few years after Adobe was founded. Flash itself was also (somewhat) opened a few years back, to successfully fend off open source alternatives - though I don't recall if it was still owned by Macromedia at that time. They've also known when they could successfully stay closed despite vigorous open competition, as in Photoshop vs. Gimp. So Adobe probably understands the issues of open/closed better than anyone, and has an organizational structure that has proven able to adapt to it. [ Though it's worth noting that MS made an incredible sacrifice to ship windows for netbooks at a massive discount, to fend off linux. Although I use a linux netbook myself, I have to admire their foresight and fortitude. Another company is Intel. Although I don't have a specific story for them, Andy Grove wrote a book Only the Paranoid Survive, and also has a blurb on the cover of The Innovator's Dilemma ("lucid, analytical - and scary" he says) - they know the danger, and have lasted a long long time, as the driver (and proposer) of Moore's Law. ]
WesleyJohnson 16y ago
I swore I saw a <section> tag. Sorry, had to play devil's advocate. I think people generally just group HTML5 and CSS3 together. I would say that perhaps Adobe is doing that as well, but it's equally plausible that it (Edge) promotes the use of HTML5 specific elements and markup?
ugh 16y ago
The term “HTML5” has come to include CSS3 and various other things currently proposed or in the process of being implemented that have nothing to do with HTML. You may not like it but that’s just how it is.
- jimbojohn 16y ago
  That may be true, but we can hold ourselves as a community to a higher level of clarity and correctness.
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Actually there were no HTML5 stuff shown in the demo, I can code those effects to work with IE6. In fact that demo may even work in IE6 if you would include some hacks.

bradleyland 16y ago

This is not so much an endorsement of their methods as it is an acknowledgement that they're paying attention. Adobe has a lot invested in Flash, and their willingness to produce tools like this shows that they're not so buried in their own proprietary technology that they'll cut their nose off to spite their face. That may sounds like a basic assumption, but many companies, especially large ones, frequently do just that.

8ren 16y ago
Adobe is an unusual large company, in that it has successfully managed the transition between closed and open before. Starting with the fonts for postscript printers, just a few years after Adobe was founded. Flash itself was also (somewhat) opened a few years back, to successfully fend off open source alternatives - though I don't recall if it was still owned by Macromedia at that time. They've also known when they could successfully stay closed despite vigorous open competition, as in Photoshop vs. Gimp. So Adobe probably understands the issues of open/closed better than anyone, and has an organizational structure that has proven able to adapt to it. [ Though it's worth noting that MS made an incredible sacrifice to ship windows for netbooks at a massive discount, to fend off linux. Although I use a linux netbook myself, I have to admire their foresight and fortitude. Another company is Intel. Although I don't have a specific story for them, Andy Grove wrote a book Only the Paranoid Survive, and also has a blurb on the cover of The Innovator's Dilemma ("lucid, analytical - and scary" he says) - they know the danger, and have lasted a long long time, as the driver (and proposer) of Moore's Law. ]

WesleyJohnson 16y ago

I swore I saw a <section> tag. Sorry, had to play devil's advocate. I think people generally just group HTML5 and CSS3 together. I would say that perhaps Adobe is doing that as well, but it's equally plausible that it (Edge) promotes the use of HTML5 specific elements and markup?

ugh 16y ago

The term “HTML5” has come to include CSS3 and various other things currently proposed or in the process of being implemented that have nothing to do with HTML. You may not like it but that’s just how it is.

jimbojohn 16y ago
That may be true, but we can hold ourselves as a community to a higher level of clarity and correctness.
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