Adobe, I’m sorry.

Now that’s out of the way, I’d like to discuss several interesting developments. Adobe, at their recent annual conference; showed off two very cool things.

Edge, a prototype program that builds HTML5 interactivity using CSS3 Transitions/Transforms and Canvas elements.

“Wallaby”, a prototype tool that converts .fla files to ready-to-go HTML5 equivalents.

I take back everything I said about Adobe being behind the times, except poor OS X compatibility. They’ve taken their existing tools like Flash and Dreamweaver, and have given them powerful, almost magical abilities to utilize bleeding-edge technology now present in the current version of every major browser.

It’s a good day for HTML5/CSS3, and a very good day for iOS users tired of seeing “Please update to the latest version of Flash Player”. A amicable middle-road solution is on the horizon, and I couldn’t be happier about it.