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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. IE tabs – This allows developers to check how HTML page would look in IE, without leaving Firefox.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Clearly Apple is backing HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript for developing future web applications. Browsers Lack HTML5 Full Support – While making HTML5 the de-facto standard Apple seems to have forgotten that none of the web browsers for mobile or desktop have full HTML 5 implementations at this time. Is it ready for eLearning Development?

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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. The two announcements which would make the HTML5 development easier and less time consuming are –.

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Social Media Libraries for Flash

Upside Learning

library for Picasa Web with no official Picasa support. This library can only be used for obtaining the images from Picasa web; it’s security restrictions don’t allow adding new images. HTML 5 and eLearning Development eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons. Along with facility for authentication, uploading photos etc.,

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Optimizing Web Media for Mobile Learning

Upside Learning

Safari builds this in, while Firefox can support it using a plug-in. Add a mobile device specific style-sheet that will render content based on the capabilities of the device accessing, the web server can then determine which content to serve up. Optimizing for the Mobile Web. View more presentations from Jonathan Mendez.

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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.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #18

Upside Learning

New Firefox Add-ons for Learning – Links to a competition, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, sought to tap into the spirit of Mozilla’s open-source community to spark innovations in learning-oriented add-ons for the Firefox internet browser. The winning add-ons are available for free download.

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