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Future Of Flash Is Open Source

Upside Learning

Adobe, recently announced moving their open-source development to Sourceforge. Looks like a desire to speed up their open-source development around the Flash platform. The new portal called Open@Adobe will hold Adobe’s open source projects in coming days.

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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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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. The Mozilla Foundation has already implemented the open source Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis codecs for video in the beta of Firefox 3.5

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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. The Mozilla Foundation has already implemented the open source Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis codecs for video in the beta of Firefox 3.5

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #8

Upside Learning

There is speculation that the Apple Tablet (if there is one) will push the envelope of UI design. Disney Ptex library goes Open Source. Disney Ptex library has been released as open source under the BSD license. Disney Ptex library has been released as open source under the BSD license.

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HTML5 making inroads with Apple and Mozilla

Aptara

HTML5 making inroads with Apple and Mozilla. Adobe Flash lost its bid to become the main content distribution language when Apple pulled support, meaning developers have had to look further afield. The past few years have seen an explosion of ways to distribute and experience content. HTML5 and iOS 8.

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HTML5: Standardize on MP4 (mostly)

ICS Learning

264 codec to the open-source community, Mozilla now has a way to integrate that codec support into their browsers (in a away they are comfortable with). About a year later, we furthered our thoughts on web-delivered video noting how the HTML5 movement had made solid progress. So the overall outcome? Now with web video (i.e.

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