Adobe Edge Web animation editor renamed 'Edge Animate' in latest preview build

Software company Adobe Inc. on Tuesday pushed out Preview 7 of Edge, the timeline-based animation product that utilizes non-plugin Web protocols HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. With this preview, Adobe has changed the name of the product to Edge Animate, perhaps better illustrating its intended use.

Since the last preview, released in May, Adobe has changed a little bit of everything, it's added new layouts, new tools, new keyboard shortcuts, and enhanced the stage, the timeline, the code editor, and overall usability.

It has been just a few days more than one year since the first preview of Edge was rolled out in Adobe Labs, and not only have significant improvements been made in that time, but it has also found a home in Adobe's Creative Cloud, the membership-based ecosystem that joins the Adobe Creative Suite desktop software with all of the Adobe tablet applications (such as Photoshop Touch, Kuler, and Proto) and various cloud-based publishing and hosting capabilities.

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7 can be downloaded freely in Adobe Labs right now.