Writing Archive

HTML vs Flash: It’s actually about the tooling and cost of entry.

View from an elearning developer: Statement: HTML can play video & Apple is blocking Flash Player on the “i” devices browsers therefore Flash is dead. Problem: html5/js/and svg missing capabilities and creation tooling increases cost of entry. When will html5/js/and svg which I see as the closest combo to what flash gives you will have [...]

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Is SWF local?

Link for reference [From RBLAB » [SNIPPET] Detect if the swf is local or online (using regular expression)]

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The Adobe Captivate Blog: eLearning Authoring Workflow: Rapid vs. Traditional

Nice little matrix from Adobe on how to use their tools for different types of Elearning workflows. Although I tend to view Rapid as measured in days and hours, not weeks. [From The Adobe Captivate Blog: eLearning Authoring Workflow: Rapid vs. Traditional]

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ericd.net v. 7.0 ☃ brrr

Link for future ref on redispatching custom values in event listeners….

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dev tools

In working on various projects over the last month I found a couple of tools that are really great First is Max – great for batch conversion of voiceover files. It’s free and the GUI is lighter than soundbooth when i don’t need to patch anything. Second is SWFDecompiler, just a really nice interface on [...]

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