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Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?

Upside Learning

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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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 browsers like Firefox support Ogg Theora (an open source format) while others like Safari support H.264

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Updates On HTML5 From Google I/O

Upside Learning

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. Also Adobe has announced that they would be supporting the WebM video format in the next release of Flash Player.

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Best Practices To Make Adobe Flash Courses Run Through Latest Browsers

Swift eLearning Services

Adobe declared that it would discontinue its support to Flash player from Dec, 2020. In connection to this, no prominent browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Safari would support Adobe Flash player.

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Why do businesses need to convert Flash to HTML5?  

Creativ Technologies

The need for elearning companies USA to convert Flash to HTML5 solutions was also there because of a heavy expansion in the elearning industry due to the Covid-19 virus. Although there can be a Flash player downloaded on mobile, or you can allow it to be used on the Google Chrome app, it causes exertion on mobile phone batteries.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

Upside Learning

The Mozilla Foundation has already implemented the open source Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis codecs for video in the beta of Firefox 3.5 The working draft of HTML 5 indicates a need to find suitable open source code which works on all browsers without licensing or patent fee. and Opera is also working on similar lines.

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eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons

Upside Learning

Mozilla’s Firefox is a preferred web browser for many. What makes Firefox different from other browsers is it being open source and highly customizable using Firefox add-ons. Flash-Switcher makes things easy by allowing you to have multiple Flash Player plug-ins installed in the browser at the same time.

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