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Standards-friendy eLearning and Web development (HTML 5 version)

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pipwerks.com is Philip Hutchison's personal site, and is dedicated to web and e-learning technologies. Many experiments and code samples can be found in the lab. You can download some cool freebies using the downloads page.

If you're looking for something to read besides Twitter posts, here are the latest pipwerks journal entries:

August23rd

Complete List of Variables for Adobe Captivate 5

While updating my CaptivateController script I noticed there have been some changes to the Captivate variables available to Captivate developers. I figured I should document them for future reference.
Note that some variables available in CP3 and CP4 are no longer available. The following list should be exhaustive for CP5; variables for previous versions of Captivate [...]

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August23rd

CaptivateController Updated to Support Adobe Captivate 5

By popular demand, I’ve updated my CaptivateController to work with Adobe Captivate 5 (CP5). Since this is an open-source project, there’s no upgrade fee. (What? “Adobe” and “no upgrade fee” in the same paragraph?!) I kid, I kid… I’m a kidder.

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August18th

Adobe Captivate: What the heck is g_intAPIType?

If you do spend any time using Captivate to create SCORM-conformant courses, you’re bound to have run into an issue or two that caused you to read some Captivate forum posts. Almost without fail, someone will mention that the solution to their problem was changing the value of the magical g_intAPIType JavaScript variable from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.

So what the heck is g_intAPIType, and why does changing it make a difference?

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