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HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware

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

CaptivateController Updated to Support Setting Variable Values

The title says it all. The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript. var myMovie = CaptivateController("Captivate"); myMovie.set("myCustomCaptivateVariable", "Hello!"); Give the new set method a spin! Read about the CaptivateController

SCORM 'Planets' Example Updated

Update 10/13/2011: I added more comments to the ActionScript code to help explain what each line of code does. I also added a Flash CS4 version of the FLA to the ZIP so more people can access the example. My “Planets” example (How to Add Basic SCORM Code

SCORM Wrapper updated for improved Plateau support

The pipwerks SCORM Wrapper has been updated with a small patch for handling odd behavior in the Plateau LMS. Special thanks to Joe Venditti for the patch (and sorry for taking almost 2 years to add it to the codebase!). Get the latest version here. Comments Bobby wrote on August

Is SCORM Dead?

About a week ago I tweeted: from what i’m reading between the lines, #SCORM is dead to the ADL. they’re moving on. interesting timing considering #TAACCCT I had no idea how much hand-wringing and consternation my off-handed comment would cause. It apparently caused (directly or indirectly) some heated

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