About

Mark Anders is an Adobe Fellow focused on enabling designers and developers to build the next generation of Internet user experiences. He is currently leading the team creating a new tool, Adobe Edge, which is a Motion and Interaction Design tool for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  Previously, he led the creation of Adobe Flash Catalyst, and Adobe Flash Builder.

Prior to joining Adobe, Mark worked at Microsoft where he co-founded the ASP.NET team and led the creation of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework.

He lives and works in San Francisco.

 

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  4. Good afternoon Mark,

    First can I say thanks for bring us Edge. It looks to be shaping up to be a fantastic addition to the suite.

    If possible, I wanted to ask if you had any sneak peaks or development news you were able to share with us. Possible you’ll have test animations etc or possibly be able to tell us about how you got Edge to this point.

    Anything would be fantastic and hugely appreciated.

    Kindest regards

    Rob Hoar

    • Hi Rob, thanks for the kind words about Edge! First, let me say that when you say “addition to the suite”, we haven’t announced how Edge will be sold when it finally comes to market. It’s free for the preview period.

      I will be updating my blog on a regular basis to talk about future things and provide background on how we got to where we are, so stay tuned!

      Mark

  5. Hi – I’ve been playing with Edge which seems very intuitive. Sorry (as this may seem a stupid question) but how do you get the generated html file to work with Joomla? I pasted the source code into a Joomla article, uploaded the image file (which appears) but the animation isn’t working. Been searching the forum for answers and can’t find anything? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Simon.

    • Hi Simon, make sure you upload the .js files and the css files. I would ask this question on the Adobe Labs Edge forum – I think others have asked about this and some have figured it out. It is definitely doable.

      Thanks for trying out Edge!

      Mark

    • Hi Kate, glad you enjoyed the Adobe HTML 5 Camp. Unfortunately I am booked at 11 AM this coming Tuesday, but would love to hear how it went.

      Thanks for checking out Edge and helping to bring people together to share their experiences!

      Mark

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  8. I saw that you wrote that edge will be able to to easily drag images or elements front to back or back to front in the next release. My issue is that even now when I select an image and go to the modify window to try to bring an image to the front I just see it move in the elements window but the actual image in the stage does not move at all.It stays where its at. Very frustrating.
    willie

    • Hi Willie, the image shouldn’t move but the z order should change. Drag n drop in the elements panel will be in the next Preview.

      Mark

  9. Hi Mark,

    I’m one of the students at Howest University College in Kortrijk. After your presentatation I was so impressed by Adobe Edge that I wanted to try it to.

    But I want to make a Photo Gallery with Edge but don’t know how to start ..
    Could you give me some tips?

    Anything would be fantastic.

    Kindest regards

    Tom Mertens

  10. Mark,

    We have an online tennis instructional magazine with literally thousands of flash animations. Obviously you can imagine the problems this has created for our subscribers who have gone mainly or exclusively mobile via iphone and ipad.

    I am assuming we can now create these in Adobe Edge. But would Edge also allow us to convert our current files into html compatible versions? More than willing to be a test case here for what looks it could be the solution we have been praying for…

    John Yandell

  11. Hi Brian, thanks for the comment, and sorry for the delay in responding!

    We haven’t exactly set the release date for Edge, though it will be this year and have not determined the bundling yet. We do have a number of other previews scheduled.

    I saw your animation posted to the Edge forums. Looks GREAT!

    Not sure how long this would take with traditional coding, but I believe A LOT longer than with using Edge.

    Thank you and keep in touch!

    Mark

  12. Hi Mark,

    I love adobe edge, its awesome. All designers can begin a new life with this…Edge almost looks like aftereffects(timeline animation)..
    Designers will be more happy if you people can develop in edge, effects like which are in aftereffects and Photoshop….example : filters, blurs, noise, stylize-glow, distort, lens flares, color corrections – hue saturation’s etc while animating…..also 3d layers, 3d rotates if possible camera….

    May be this can difficult, but if it works you people will invade the world and edge will be world no.1 web animation tool…

    Thanks
    Jake

  13. Hi Mark,
    I am desperate to create the swipe trigger in Edge !
    I referenced a JQuery Plugin for the ‘swipe’ from within my code and I wrote the relative functions in the EdgeProject.html of my animation this way:
    $(document).ready(function() {
    $(‘body’).swipe();
    });
    function swipeFurther(){
    window.location.href=”http://www.google.com/”; //example url
    }
    function swipeBack(){
    document.location.href=”http://www.google.com/”;
    }
    function swipeUp(){
    document.location.href=”http://www.google.com/”;
    }

    It works beautifully as long as I use http urls but I don’t seem to be able to write the correct functions to go to all the different ‘div’ in the html page (..plus I have this horrible feeling to drown in an inch of water :( (
    Please, help!
    Thank you.
    MG

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