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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

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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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. 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– Chrome 5, Safari 4 and Opera 10.53.

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

Aptara

In 1996 Macromedia first introduced the Flash Player, developed to play videos, animations, and audio and to support enhanced interactivity in web browsers. Over the years web browsers matured and so did Flash Player, which became the most widely used plug-in to play multimedia elements on a web page. Migrate with Enhancement.

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Why Use ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Based eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

New APIs and Frameworks – Adobe has developed many new capabilities in Flash Player, AS 3.0 has improved sound APIs which can now tell the sound level of the audio playing in Flash Player. Text layout framework – it’s a framework built on new text engine in Flash player 10 which can be used with AS 3.0. Sound APIs – AS 3.0

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Apple missing the small picture

Clark Quinn

Apple allows cross-platform media players, whether hyperdocs (c.f. video and audio formats are playable). I hardly miss it on my browser (I have a Firefox extension that blocks it unless I explicitly open them, and I rarely use it; and I browse a lot )! What was needed was a cross-platform capability.

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5 Keys to Success With the Knowledge Guru Game Platform

Knowledge Guru

If users cannot switch to a modern browser (IE9 or higher, Chrome, Firefox), then you’ll have problems. Legend is the optimal choice if you want to break up game play throughout the day and have players focus on a single topic per play session. The result is player fatigue and overload on their brains.

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