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Captivate 4 variables gone wild

Update (August 2010): I have published a new list of Captivate variables that are specific to Adobe Captivate 5. Check it out. The folks at Adobe recently published a list of Captivate 4 variables. While it’s a solid list, it’s not really a complete list. Here is a

SCORM security (two kinds of SCORM people)

I’ve had a flurry of emails and messages regarding my SCORM cheat the past few days, and have received feedback from a number of well-regarded SCORM aficionados, some of whom contributed to the standard and helped make SCORM what it is today. This is wonderful, I’m very happy

Cheating in SCORM

Update: The bookmarklet has been taken down as a courtesy to the e-learning developer community. I am not giving out the code, please don’t ask. I’m always surprised how little people talk about cheating in e-learning; maybe it’s a fear of revealing just how easy it can

Gotchas in Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is at Release Candidate 1, which means it will be released very shortly. IE8 is a brand-new browser and will represent a considerable shift from IE7/IE6; it will follow standards more closely and will offer much improved CSS 2.1 support. However, because of some

Lazy loading excanvas.js

excanvas.js is a script that enables developers to use the canvas element in Internet Explorer; since IE doesn’t support canvas or the canvas API, the excanvas script converts (most) canvas commands to Vector Markup Language (VML), the only vector rendering language supported natively in Internet Explorer. excanvas is

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