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HTML5 Fans Rejoice – Adobe Ditches Flash Player on Mobile Devices

eLearning 24-7

Especially for us fans of HTML5 who knew in our hearts of hearts that it was a superior product to Flash. 9th, that it is abandoning its work on Flash for mobile devices and instead focusing on mobile development of development of HTML5 for mobile. Here are some previous posts on HTML5 and its impact.

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Online multimedia content in e-learning: Flash vs. HTML5

Matrix

The last few years had witnessed a strong debate over the two technologies that make possible the embedding of multimedia content files in a web page: Flash and HTML5. Apples, aka Flash. Flash is a mature technology that runs well on all browsers, including older versions of Internet Explorer, which some businesses still use.

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Flash Dead for eLearning

Tony Karrer

I've been warning about this since January 2010 in Still No Flash , and called it out further as the signs became more serious in May 2010 with Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. My words then: We are hitting a tipping point where you have to question building anything that uses Flash as the delivery mechanism.

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Have You mEnabled Your eLearning For iPads?

Upside Learning

Since its launch, back in April 2010, Apple has sold more than 100 million iPads – a mind boggling quantity unmatched and way ahead of any other device manufacturer. It literally revolutionised the ‘hand held’ mobile, tablet market across the world. Watch this amazing video. However, the software is another story.

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Some Thoughts On Tablet Learning (aka Elearning On iPads)

Upside Learning

It has ruled the tablet computer space with a commanding market share ever since it literally created the category in 2010. So while technically it may not be mlearning it is indeed helping mlearning adoption. In my opinion if you’re creating elearning primarily for desktops it would be best to use Flash. Better tablet learning.

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An Overview of HTML5

Integrated Learnings

Apple's recent refusal to support Flash is the latest of many headaches web developers have had to endure as the web has matured but standards have been slow to respond. I mentioned this to a Flash developer at lunch today and I could see the frustration in his eyes wondering how he's going to meet the needs of his customers who use iPads.

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mLearning: The Time is Now

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Almost a year later we noted that the Horizon Report slated adoption of mLearning for one year or less. From the T+D article: "We were surprised at the slower pace of adoption," says Janet Clarey, senior analyst for Bersin & Associates. " It looks like the future of mLearning is officially now. Fingers crossed!