Moving into the HTML5 development flow will require you to move away from the applications which become familiar during the Flash development cycle. Applications such as Flash Professional, Flash Builder, and Flash Develop are all specifically designed to work with Flash content and Flash content alone. As great as these applications are, there are many similar HTML5 development applications that allow you to build rich web experiences in a very similar manner that you are used to. This chapter will cover the process of moving away from using the Adobe Flash Professional development environment and beginning the hard decision of what new development software to use when creating your HTML5 projects. Although there is an endless variety of great software that you could use, this chapter will cover many of the new and popular applications that the web developers are using right now.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
Understanding what is needed...