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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

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. What’s Adobe’s contribution? How’s it going?

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Apple Vs Adobe: Impact On Mobile Learning Development

Upside Learning

The same Flash file published as SWF or AIR app would work with other mobile devices supporting Flash Player 10.1 But now Flash developers (if they wish to develop iPhone and iPad apps) have to learn to use the iPhone SDK and Objective-C which has a steep learning curve. or AIR 2.0.

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Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?

Upside Learning

Primarily, it reads the binary SWF file and renders its animation and audio content to standard web compliant format. How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning Google Fusion – Is This the Future of Free Data Visualization? Tags: Innovation Mobile Learning Adobe eLearning Flash Player HTML 5 mLearning Smokescreen.

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Flash in eLearning - Seven Traps to Avoid

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

If you are considering the on-going use of Flash for developing e-learning, here are seven traps to avoid. SWF) will play okay regardless of the frame rate. When delivering the SWF, make sure to maintain the relative path, or else your content will not play because of broken link.

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15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

Upside Learning

Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. Apart from supporting many common SWF features such as vector graphics, embedded fonts, images and timeline animation, it also converts basic ActionScript 2.0 Hot Lava Mobile. Google Swiffy. and ActionScript 3.0 code into HTML (though no Flash games yet). and ActionScript 3.0 iBooks Author.

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The 4 S’s of mobile design

E-Learning Provocateur

Given that smartphone sales are estimated to exceed PC sales by the end of this year, and mobile Internet users are expected to exceed desktop Internet users soon after, I have finally concluded that the time is ripe for mobile learning. Who knows… maybe Apple will do a backflip and start playing swf’s after all?

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mLearning: The Time is Now

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George   The push for mobile learning (mLearning) has been a surprisingly long one. And now a recent T+D magazine features the article: " At Last: M-Learning Going Mainstream. I tried Swiffy on some of my Captivate-published SWFs and I'm sorry to report that none of them converted using the Swiffy beta.