I am pleased to announce that we released Milestone 32.1 of CoSolvent Community Server last week.  The main new functionality in this release is that FLV files can now be stored and served “as is&# – previously FLV uploads were treated just like any other video upload and were reprocessed into 3 different streams (configurable) targeting different bandwidths.  Now sites can choose to use the original FLV upload as is.  MORE >>

Last night we released Milestone 31 of CoSolvent Community Server to production.  Among other things this updates PDF display for IE to use the non-standard <object> tag syntax using the classid attribute and the src param instead of the type and data attributes used in standards mode.  The standards mode tag works, mostly; however IE seems to block page execution while downloading the PDF when in standards mode (regardless of the “Fast Web View&# setting of the PDF), something which is obviously a big problem for the Video-in-PDF documents we’re hosting.  MORE >>

I’ve been interested in doing some work with DITA, and currently the DITA-OT processing code seems like the main viable way to do so, at least without paying an arm and a leg. One of the first things I noticed, other than the spotty documentation of the toolkit (talk about the cobbler’s family being the last to get new shoes!) was that the basic xhtml output is, well ugly.  The ToC file has no class attributes on any elements, and imports the same CSS file as the content pages.  So I started digging into how to customize the ToC output.  Maybe its really easy.  MORE >>

What are the three biggest headaches in eLearning? Getting the knowledge out of the expert’s brain. Embedding the knowledge in the learner’s actions. Everything in between. Worse, these are intimately related. When experts and learners are at a distance from one another, it is incredibly easy to miscommunicate. It is equally easy for the message to get misplaced on the way. To combat this, instructional designers have developed a meticulous methodology to guarantee that the knowledge leaves and arrives safely. How can you deliver knowledge efficiently? Womack and Daniel T. MORE >>

We recently wanted to put up a carousel-style image gallery of product screenshots in our Drupal based website. After a good bit of research, I wound up with several “solutions”, but none of them did quite what I wanted; luckily I hit upon a solution by a bit of good luck simply by noticing some settings that had been enabled in the course of trying out some of the existing plugins. Loading is not actually asynchronous, but there is a significant delay while the javascript initializes during which the content is hidden. There is no progress indicator during this time. ImageCache. Views. <?php. MORE >>