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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Cross Platform / Browser Compatibility – Every browser has its own rendering mechanism so an application developed for iPad Safari is not guaranteed to work well in other browsers like IE, Firefox or Chrome. 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

On day 1 of the I/O Google has made many announcements like release of open source, royalty-free video format WebM, Chrome Web store, opened up Google Wave, released open source Font API and directory etc. In Google I/O, Google has actually made the VP8 codec open source and royalty free under a new format called WebM.

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Things to Consider Before Investing in eLearning Development Tools

Hurix Digital

Typically, an eLearning development tool is a software program designed to manipulate files and other raw material and convert them into online courses in specific file formats that can be consumed by end-users using an LMS platform. What is an eLearning development tool? What file types would work best with your existing computer systems?

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Flash: an End of an Era – What You Need To Know

Aptara

There will no longer be updates and support for Flash Player on many browsers including Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox. Migrating existing Flash-based courses to a HTML5 format also provides you an opportunity to enhance the learning experience. Impact on the eLearning Industry. Migrate with Enhancement.

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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. The Smokescreen project demos are available at this the smokescreen’s website , these demos will work on the HTML5 compatible browsers Firefox 3.6, Chrome 5, Safari 4 and Opera 10.53.

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Hell in a Cell Between Articulate Storyline 2, Adobe Captivate 9, and LectoraInspire 16

CommLab India

All three tools support popular browsers such asInternet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The supported image formats are GIF, JEPG, PNG. We can insert videos in all three tools and also add streaming videos.Supported formats are MP4, FlV and AVI. Supported formats are MP3 and WAVE. Browser Compatibility.

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Mobile Learning and Interactivity

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Firefox doesn’t support H.264 264 format, while Safari will only support that, and Google introduced the new WebM standard but supports both WebM and H.264 264 formats. For instance, the languages for native app development differ based on OS, iOS uses Objective C, while RIM and Android both use Java, but different SDKs of that!