Experienced SL2 Devs - is the HTML5 output legit?

Nov 12, 2015

Some background first: I have extensive web and elearning experience with HTML5 projects published out of Captivate, as well as developed via straight HTML/JS. I have a little experience with Storyline 2 (non-professional - just playing around with it).

I am taking on a lead role on a fairly large e-learning project where the team is tasked with updating and enhancing an existing curriculum of courses that were developed in and published out of Articulate Presenter '09. The courses were originally developed using a lot of Engage interactions, and also launch new windows that loaded in demos/sims developed in Captivate. 

Once we are finished with this update/enhance project, we expect it to have a minimum shelf life of 2 years, likely 3. For that reason, I am very hesitant to rely on a Flash-based output, as I highly doubt that Chrome/Firefox/IE will be supporting Flash in 2 years (likely much sooner). Even if they do, it will be difficult to justify to our users. I find it difficult now with other projects.

While I am more comfortable with Captivate, my team is very much pro-Articulate. I am open to using it so long as it will work given the requirements. I just looked at Storyline 2's HTML5 support page and it appears that only Chrome is supported for HTML5 output on Windows. And a quick review of the forums seems to indicate that HTML5 support is pretty spotty/not reliable.

For those of you who have done large projects with an HTML5 output requirement, can you recommend Storyline 2 as a suitable tool? 

2 Replies
Phil Mayor

The HTML5 output in Storyline 2 is much better than Storyline 1 and is improving all of the time. On a PC it supports Chrome and on the Mac it also supports Safari.

I have tested output on Firefox , Edge and IE 11 and most of the time it does work, of course if you hit an issue it is unsupported so support is limited.

I would be surprised if Flash in the corporate world was dead in 2 years, a lot of my clients are still using IE8 :-) 

That said the HTML5 content does not look as good as the Flash rendered version and I find fonts look like rasterised images 

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