{"id":16598,"date":"2010-09-12T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2010-09-12T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:42:17","slug":"illustrator-cs5-gains-html5-chops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/illustrator-cs5-gains-html5-chops\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator CS5 gains HTML5 chops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Double rainbow &#8216;cross the sky, oh my God, so intense..<\/em>. Wait, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA\">something else<\/a>&#8211;but this is pretty great, too: the Illustrator team has just released the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/illustrator_html5\/\">Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack<\/a>, downloadable from Adobe Labs. \u00a0Highlights include the ability to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Export named character styles as CSS<\/li>\n<li>Export artwork appearances as CSS<\/li>\n<li>Include selected Graphic Styles as CSS in SVG<\/li>\n<li>Create parameterized SVG (vector graphics tagged with variables)<\/li>\n<li>Create multi-screen SVG (leveraging media queries to serve up design variations)<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the download page or Mordy Golding&#8217;s nice <a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/web-designers-rejoice-adobe-releases.html\">summary<\/a> for more details.  You can ask questions &#038; provide feedback on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.adobe.com\/community\/labs\/illustrator_html5?view=discussions\">Labs user forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to see whether this news makes it onto the Mac sites that&#8217;ve beaten Adobe up for a perceived lack of enthusiasm about HTML5 (tough, as it just doesn&#8217;t fit that sterile, stupid narrative). \u00a0The funny thing is that these changes build on the SVG support that Illustrator has been <em>shipping for ten years<\/em>. \u00a0Sometimes it just takes a while for the world to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch wasn&#8217;t kidding when he said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/05\/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-were-going-to-make-the-best-tools-in-the-world-for-html5\/\">We\u2019re going to make the best tools in the world for HTML5<\/a>.&#8221; These Illustrator developments have been in the works <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/10\/sneak_peek_ai_fl_dw_canvas.html\">for a while<\/a>; Dreamweaver has just made its <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/html5pack.html\">HTML5 Pack for CS5<\/a> official; and you&#8217;ll see more from Adobe going forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s a demo from evangelist Greg Rewis:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"256\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/images.tv.adobe.com\/swf\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"fileID=7705&#038;context=584&#038;embeded=true&#038;environment=production\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/images.tv.adobe.com\/swf\/player.swf\" flashvars=\"fileID=7705&#038;context=584&#038;embeded=true&#038;environment=production\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"256\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double rainbow &#8216;cross the sky, oh my God, so intense&#8230; Wait, that&#8217;s something else&#8211;but this is pretty great, too: the Illustrator team has just released the Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack, downloadable from Adobe Labs. \u00a0Highlights include the ability to: Export named character styles as CSS Export artwork appearances as CSS Include selected Graphic Styles as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}