Posts tagged ‘Adobe Flash’

Flash support is increasingly a minefield

Posted Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, opinion, web browsers, web design and development

Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa, the times-are-a-changin’, it’s getting dangerous to [...]

Introducing SWFRightClick

Posted Tuesday, February 28th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe Flash, e-learning, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies

Adobe Captivate currently ships with a 3rd-party JavaScript utility named RightClick.js, which enables the Captivate SWF to detect when a user right-clicks the SWF. While upgrading the Captivate publishing templates, I realized RightClick.js wasn’t built to work with SWFObject 2.x and suffered from a few shortcomings. I modified the Captivate template’s SWFObject code to get [...]

HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware

Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, e-learning, HTML 5, opinion, silverlight

What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come to grips with what has undoubtedly [...]

For Your Reading Pleasure: EasyCaptions

Posted Monday, June 7th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags accessibility, Adobe Flash, EasyCaptions, How-to, HTML 5, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, video, web design and development

Introducing EasyCaptions: A simple system for adding captions and an interactive transcript to online videos. EasyCaptions uses progressive enhancement to provide the best possible experience for all visitors, regardless of their browser’s JavaScript, HTML5 or Flash support. Demonstration Background I don’t produce much video these days, but as a web surfer I often encounter other [...]

Dear Apple and Adobe

Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Apple, best practices, opinion, standards, technology

Neither of you are choir boys, and I’m fed up with your bickering.

HTML5 Video, minus Ogg

Posted Friday, March 19th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, How-to, HTML 5, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, web browsers, web design and development

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, refuse to support the MP4/H.264 standard because it isn’t open-source and free from licensing constraints. Without Ogg, Firefox’s HTML5 video is rendered useless and requires a Flash-based fallback system. However, Firefox’s handling of the video element breaks the fallback mechanism. A scripted solution is required.

Here’s a simple script that will detect whether HTML 5 video is supported in the browser, and if it is, will check to see if this is Firefox. If yes, it deletes the specified video element but leaves the Flash fallback in its place.

Introducing LearnSWFObject.com

Posted Monday, February 15th, 2010.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, JavaScript, learnswfobject.com, SWFObject, tutorials, web design and development

I’m happy to introduce you to my latest project, LearnSWFObject.com

What feature is missing from your e-learning development tool?

Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, Articulate, development tools, e-learning, e-learning tools, HTML, JavaScript, Lectora

I have some simple questions I’d love to get feedback on. I’m curious about what people are looking for in their e-learning authoring tools, specifically: What feature is your current tool missing that you would love to see implemented? Support for team collaboration? Support for themes or custom CSS styling? Support for language localization? A [...]