And I just came across some excellent blog posts written by their technical director, Alex Mackman (@AlexAtCMGroup). In the age of the Flash vs. HTML5 Ring of Death, I really value well-reasoned opinions and correct information, and he’s giving both. Flash and HTML5 for eLearning is the most recent.
I should note: Luminosity Studio publishes to both HTML5 and Flash.
Adobe has been working on the ability to convert Captivate-created SWFs to HTML5 for some time, so I hear. I never made time to try this converter when it was in beta, but I made a contact at DevLearn who let me know this was on its way… and with full interactivity, not just exporting to video.
It looks like the converter is now at “Preview 2″ stage. Here’s the press release from Adobe, including a link to download. I’ll definitely be carving out some time to try this out in the next couple of days. Feel free to let me know about your experiences here!
I’ve come across a few rather disturbing instances in the marketing of authoring software lately. I guess it’s not too much of a surprise, since vendors are now pretty much tripping over themselves to deliver content to the iPad (and now all mobile devices), but it’s disturbing nonetheless.
The trend — or maybe it’s too soon to call it a trend, and I hope it doesn’t become one — is that vendors are claiming that their software “publishes to HTML5″, when in fact it just takes the content — which may well be interactive — and publishes it to video. Which pretty much makes it worthless.
I sat in on the HTML5 Morning Buzz at DevLearn and also presented on HTML5 authoring tools (and I will do a longer post on that soon, I promise). I can tell you there’s still a lot of misinformation floating around, and (shocker) it looks like there are some vendors trying to take advantage of it.
I try to keep onehundredfortywords readers pretty well informed about HTML5 in the elearning world, but here’s another point to take to heart: Any authoring tool and any output is only good if it serves your design, which serves the learning/business need. Flawless publishing to HTML5 doesn’t do you any good if the tool isn’t capable of creating — and publishing — the interactivity you’ve designed.