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The Demise of the Flash Player – What Do I Do Now?

Adobe Captivate

Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. This announcement has a major impact on any organization which has e-learning courses published to run in Adobe Flash player. Do you want to continue?”

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Estimating Time for Rebuilding an Existing Course Library with Captivate

Adobe Captivate

This process may assist you in the next year or two as we prepare for potential course re-development opportunities due to the slow but eventual demise of the Flash player. Publish them in HTML5 rather than swf output. Improve the capacity of these courses to work well with within our learning management system. That is the task.

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About Slides and Frames – Intro to Micro-navigation

Adobe Captivate

Recently I presented two sessions about the Timeline at the Adobe eLearning Conference in DC (25th of April 2018). Time to upgrade this article to integrate the changes within newer versions (system variable names) and the switch from SWF to HTML output. A published cptx-file (to HTML or SWF) is an interactive movie.

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Learning Content in Crisis? The How and Why of Moving from Flash to HTML5

gomo learning

The legacy, software-based standard that Flash Player used drained battery significantly faster. For example, in Chrome : Individual Flash Player items have been off by default and asking permission since version 55 (December 2016). Flash Player must be first enabled in the browser settings since version 76 (July 2019).

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Rapid Authoring Tips to Tackle Legacy Flash eLearning Content

BrightCarbon

Flash content also poses a security risk if the required plug-in Player is not regularly updated. in January 2018 it’s no wonder that Adobe is finally pulling the plug on Flash at the end of 2020. Sothink SWF Decompiler is a paid solution, but includes a 30-day free trial. With Flash usage in websites down to 5.3%