Today Adobe announced Edge, a new tool for designing Web content in HTML5, which, from the facts, sounds like one of the most boring tech stories to start the news week. But there's a good part: HTML5 is widely viewed as a competitor to one of Adobe's main products, Flash, the standard that most Web video, dynamic sites, and games are based on. So by throwing more support behind HTML5, which is an open format and not owned by any company, Adobe's kind of acting semi-suicidal. Why would it do something like that?
