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. The embedded videos are played back from within SWF, so you can create your own components to control the video playback. eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4?

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Upside Learning

APRIL 7, 2009

If you have been bugged by previous Flash versions not allowing you to publish for latest Flash Player there is some relief here. Flash CS4 allows us to finally publish SWF files for Flash Player 10 - the latest version of Flash Player. If you have experienced FlashCS4, do write in to us to share your thoughts.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2010

An eLearning player is a building block for more conventional [one with back and next for navigation buttons] eLearning courses. What’s an eLearning player? This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years.

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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. Primarily, it reads the binary SWF file and renders its animation and audio content to standard web compliant format. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2010

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content. For eLearning (& mobile learning) I think Flash will remain the obvious tool till for some time. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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Upside Learning

JULY 28, 2010

Adobe has some great development tools like Flash Builder, Flash CS5 which target the runtimes – Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Adobe has released SWF specifications till its version 10. And that kicked off some of open-source Flash player implementations like Lightspark and Gnash.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 14, 2010

We posted earlier that Adobe is working with all the major mobile phone vendors [except Apple] under the Open Screen Project to bring the Flash Player to their devices and make it a de facto standard for mobile delivery. This will ease development and provide a consistent experience across multiple devices. or AIR 2.0.

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