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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Last week, while justifying Apple’s refusal to allow Flash player on iPhone/iPad, Steve Jobs wrote– “ New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too) ”. A few days before the launch of iPad Apple had released a list of ‘iPad ready’ websites having support for HTML5.

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What’s New in Adobe eLearning Suite2?

Upside Learning

One of the most significant improvements in this version is the availability of Captivate 5 for both Windows and Mac OS platforms previously it was only available for Windows users. Thankfully, Adobe Apple fight is not affecting everything). The eLearning Suite 2 looks a great improvement over its previous versions.

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Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning

Upside Learning

Apart from AIR app, the same code and assets in any AIR app can further be used to deliver a mobile browser version using Flash Player 10.1. . - Y ou can develop eLearning content that can run on desktops, laptops, netbooks, and smartphones. General Considerations for Mobile Learning (mLearning).

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Apple missing the small picture

Clark Quinn

I’ve previously discussed the fight between Apple and Adobe about Flash (e.g. Which Apple is blocking, for interactivity. Which Apple is blocking, for interactivity. Apple allows cross-platform media players, whether hyperdocs (c.f. here ), but I had a realization that I think is important.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash.

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

This table shows compatible publish and playback versions for these codecs. Apart from these video encoders/ converters, other video editing software from Adobe and Apple also enable to export to FLV format of the video being edited. To encode videos into FLV or MP4, the encoder software uses following codecs - H.264,

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

Since the start of the project virtually everyone has joined the project , except for Apple. Opera has released a HTML 5 version (Opera mobile) for Windows Mobile. Also porting Flash runtimes on handheld devices has been made royalty free (which wasn’t the case earlier). How’s it going?