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

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June 2010 Monthly Roundup: 10 Most Popular Posts

Upside Learning

Expectations From eLearning Authoring Tools. Lists some features and functions that eLearning professionals normally expect from authoring tools. Rapid Authoring Tools For Creating mLearning. Rapid Authoring Tools For Creating mLearning. Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player? LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis.

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Advantages of HTML5 over Flash

Dynamic Pixel

E-professionals are gradually showing a paradigm shift from Flash to HTML5 , which has evolved as a potential alternative that runs on various systems and is compatible with the latest learning management systems. Moreover, most of the e-learning authoring tools give HTML5 as output. Why do we need to convert Flash to HTML5?

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

Flash allows development of animated content that can be played using a browser. This is done by using ‘Flash Player’, a program available for free download from the Adobe website. Approximately 95% of the PCs in the world have flash player installed. It’s a widely used format in elearning, and other sectors.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Open Laszlo Gets Its Own Track and Big Customers for the open source webtop platform

Mark Oehlert

is actually investigating using it and today I see that Open Laszlo has its own track at AjaxWorld West 2007. Laszlo is abstract from the Flash player. It sounded interesting and I have heard rumors that one of the armed services in the U.S. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons

Upside Learning

What makes Firefox different from other browsers is it being open source and highly customizable using Firefox add-ons. Here I list some of them: Flash Switcher – Adobe Flash being the most commonly used development tool for Upside Learning, testing Flash content in different versions of Flash Player is a pain.

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