Polygons and pen tool?

Hello! I end up spending lots of time making custom shapes in Illustrator and then importing them into my Edge composition as .svg files. And if I want to change a colour or size, I need to go back to Illustrator and re-do, save and import to Edge etc etc.... am I missing something? Does Edge have a polygon or pen tool somewhere that I can't seem to find so I can make custom shapes in Edge directly? That would speed up my work flow heaps!
Lovely Adobe Edge people - is a pen tool on the horizon? Or even just a triangle?
Thanks!
Lisa

Hi, trazdum-
Please note that Animate doesn't use the canvas tag right now due to uneven support across browsers.  Take a look at the support across browsers here:
http://caniuse.com/#search=canvas
As canvas picks up adoption, we'll be considering it for a future release of Animate, but for right now, we're based in JS and CSS-land!
-Elaine

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