Content delivery network vs. static HTML

Question

Hey everyone,
I just finished my first animation project in Adobe Edge Animate. Excellent! Now I want to publish my banner ad.
When I go to publish the ad, I have the choice (in publish settings) of Frameworks via CDN or Publish as static
HTML. I typically deliver my ads to a newspaper who hosts the ads for me. I would assume I need to save as
CDN as opposed to static HTML. Is this correct?
matt

Answer 1

Hey, Matt-
For Animate 1.5, yes, jQuery served off of Google's servers, but it is browser-independent.  Think of Google as just another webserver in this case.  For Animate CC, jQuery is served off of Google's servers and the Animate runtime is served off of Adobe's servers.  All of this should be available regardless of what browser you use.
Regarding the glow filter, CSS Filters are only supported by Webkit-based browsers.  Firefox is not a Webkit-based browser (whereas Chrome and Safari are), so filters are not supported.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-filters
Remember that the down-level stage (where you would post your poster image) is only displayed in browsers that do not support Animate content in general (mostly IE6-8), not just support or not support particular features that Animate makes available to the user.  Most people have gotten around this by using transparent PNGs to fake the glow to make the animation as cross-browser as possible.  While this is unfortunate, there's not much we can do to get out and push the browser's implementation of this standard.
Hope that helps clarify things for you!
-Elaine