Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

To further reinforce that thought, Adobe announced just yesterday that it has ceased development on the Flash mobile browser plug-in. Meaning there will be no updates to those plug-ins and future versions of Android and Blackberry Playbooks may not be able to render Flash content. What will a web without Flash look like?

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Steve Jobs famously declared Flash to be buggy and resource hungry and the whole world moved to HTML5. He did elaborate his thoughts in this article where he said “new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and on PCs too)” In that last bit […]. Mobile Learning'

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Upside Learning

MARCH 6, 2019

Is it possible to make the courses mobile-compatible with effective Flash to HTML5 conversion that’s cost effective and less time consuming? Manual conversion of a complex Flash project to HTML5 is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process that can be very expensive for organizations due to platform differences.

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Upside Learning

JULY 28, 2010

Looks like a desire to speed up their open-source development around the Flash platform. We advocate the need of openness at Adobe especially for their Flash runtimes. Adobe has some great development tools like Flash Builder, Flash CS5 which target the runtimes – Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2010

The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. Obviously, using Flash platform tools offered by Adobe. Also porting Flash runtimes on handheld devices has been made royalty free (which wasn’t the case earlier).

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Upside Learning

MAY 5, 2010

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) ”. More specifically- Is it ready to compete with Flash for eLearning Development? In fact I believe it may not replace Flash at all.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

This has come just in time for mLearning implementers; there is a new tool out in Google Labs called Swiffy that let’s one convert flash animation (swf files) to a device independent HTML5. Simply put, this will allow existing libraries of flash animation content to be ported to devices that run iOS – iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. 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.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2010

Smokescreen project is an effort to bring Flash player to the iPhone/iPad without installing the Flash plug-in. For now this project is targeted at advertisers to enable them to run Flash ads on the iPhone/iPad. Here is a video demonstration of a Flash ad running on an iPad using Smokescreen –.

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2010

Adobe recently released eLearning Suite 2 comprising of Captivate 5, Flash Professional CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Photoshop CS5 Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro, Presenter 7 (available on Windows only), Soundbooth CS5, Bridge CS5, Device Central CS5 in it. Flash CS5 has many new features. Again here’s a short video –.

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Upside Learning

JULY 6, 2010

About a month back I blogged about Smokescreen which allows advertisers to run simple Flash movies on iPad/iPhone using HTML5/JavaScript. Today while checking my twitter feed I discovered Frash which runs Flash content on iPad/iPhone in a Safari browser. Related posts: Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 21, 2016

After having been around for 20 years, Flash Professional has now evolved into Animate CC. Animate CC leverages the familiar tools interface and rich output of its predecessor, at the same time allowing for native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. This recent development at Adobe is more than just a renaming of the tool, as […].

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). However, often we find videos not being used optimally.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

And most importantly – Flash support (rather the absolute lack of it). The eLearning industry thrives on Flash and without it how do I even present the great stuff we create to prospects. I have failed to understand reasons behind Apple’s continued ignorance of Flash. Personally I was really disappointed to read about iPad.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2016

Flash Professional is being rechristened as Animate CC. On Feb 8th Adobe made an important announcement, which many of us in eLearning development domain may have missed. You can read about it here and here On the face of it, it looks like the best thing to have happened to eLearning Development ever since Steve […].

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. 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.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 30, 2010

Should be able to import external Flash SWF as well as audio and video in variety of popular formats. Please note, I haven’t considered full-fledged development tools like Adobe Flash, for which some amount of technical proficiency is required. Localization processes using the tool should be easy and fast. 2004, AICC).

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Upside Learning

MAY 29, 2009

Time and again, we have seen Flash being extended in unique ways by leveraging the power of AS3. We caught something in the feeds yesterday that truly took us by surprise – face recognition using Flash. Tags: Future Technology Innovation eLearning Development Adobe Flash Future Learning Technology. Check out the video here.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2010

While developing courses using our internal rapid authoring framework, we often use a few custom complex interactivities – like small games – developed through Flash and integrate it in the course as external interactivity. in Flash Based eLearning Development? eLearning Development: How long does it Really take?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 24, 2010

in Flash Based eLearning Development? It is important for all involved with eLearning development to understand and appreciate that effective eLearning courses need an iterative process to create them. The more you iterate, the closer you get to an ideal learning solution. eLearning Development India: Results of Salary Survey 2009.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Much has been said, spoken and written about ‘Why Move eLearning from Flash to HTML5? Flash’s incompatibility with some mobile devices and HTML5’s easy adaptability for multi-device learning have acted as a catalyst to this shift. But ‘how can Flash-based eLearning be converted to HTML5?’

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

Unlike screen capturing tools, the published output is not just a passive video, but is in a fully interactive format such as Flash SWF. In the past I was involved in development of some courses where we didn’t have chance but to use Adobe Flash to develop the guided application simulations.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I am talking about how fast Adobe’s deadline for phasing out of Flash is approaching. Most of you may have switched your development of eLearning courses from Flash to HTML5. But what about old Flash-based courses that are still lying in […]. You may wonder what’s that cryptic statement supposed to mean?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Adobe Flash: Now With Face Recognition. eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4. HTML 5 and eLearning Development. eLearning Outsourcing to India will reach USD 603 million by 2012. Upside Learning Completes Five Years. Learning Management: What does a Training Company need an LMS for? The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2019

Adobe has announced that Flash will be obsolete by 2020. So what happens to your existing courses built in and hosted on Flash? The answer is migration to HTML5.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Most organisations have embarked on the transition process from Flash to HTML5. Considering 2020 – the deadline for Flash’s imminent phasing out – is not too far off, it makes sense to take up the process on priority. Once you have decided to migrate from Flash to HTML5, the next question is, do you do […].

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2010

Also Adobe has announced that they would be supporting the WebM video format in the next release of Flash Player. This new format may just become a de-facto audio/video delivery standard in the future as the web browsers like Firefox, Opera and Chrome have already confirmed supporting this format.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 21, 2010

in Flash Based eLearning Development? I have been involved with rapid eLearning projects at Upside and also creation of our own Rapid Authoring Framework that sits in our LMS (UpsideLMS). Related posts: Our Blog Turns One Today Why Use ActionScript 3.0 eLearning Development Is An Iterative Process.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Now that Adobe has forced your hand to convert your legacy Flash courses to HTML5, you will have to revisit your entire repertoire of eLearning courses. Over the course of several years, you may have imagined, visualized and developed just the right content for your organization. It may seem like a tall order to do […].

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Upside Learning

JULY 30, 2013

Over the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed a sharp decline in the proportion of Flash-based eLearning that we create for our clients and partners. In the last 6 months, Flash-based courses have been [.]. And with a team of over 100 dedicated to custom eLearning development, we sure do quite a bit of eLearning development.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Flash Course. Flash animations can be published as videos and imported in the HTML/Lectora framework. This method allows the previously developed Flash animations to be reutilized, leading to sizeable cost-savings. We’ve presented some cost-effective options below to help you get started. For HTML output. For Native Apps.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 28, 2010

in Flash based eLearning development. in Adobe Flash CS3. Kirupa’s Flash and ActionScript Tutorials. Senocular.com Flash Tutorials. Ted Patrick – Flash Platform @ Adobe Systems. in Flash Based eLearning Development? Social Media Libraries for Flash eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Graphic Designer, Art Director), Flash Programming (Lead Programmers), and Project Management (Sr. Current Openings. We are looking for senior, experienced professionals in Instructional Design (Learning Designer), Visual Design (Visualizer, Sr. PM & Account Managers).

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

A multimedia authoring tool that goes beyond Flash and builds applications based on HTML5, Javascript, jQuery and CSS3 and works well on iOS and Android devices, and the latest HTML5-compatible browsers. You can create interactive videos with clickable links, table of contents, search, embed quizzes and it supports both Flash and HTML5.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 22, 2013

For most organisations, adopting mobile learning raises the BIG question of “What do we do with our existing content (probably developed in Flash which doesn’t run on the iPad)? Look beyond just the Flash components, existing courses may have third party plug-ins and interactivities to make the course more effective but don’t work on iPads.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I am talking about how fast Adobe’s deadline for phasing out of Flash is approaching. Most of you may have switched your development of eLearning courses from Flash to HTML5. But what about old Flash-based courses that are still lying in […]. You may wonder what’s that cryptic statement supposed to mean?

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As more and more eLearning development moves towards HTML, many of us can't escape that niggling wish for the richness and smoothness of Flash output. So any tool that offers a promise of similar output, but for HTML, with the same ease and flexibility definitely raises interest. Adobe EDGE Animate CC is one such tool. […].

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