We have been asked to develop some e-Learning in SCORM, HTML5 and iPad compatible versions for IE7 and above. I am trying to assess whether Storyline is the right tool to use and I have a couple of questions.
1. If we publish our content to html5 for deployment via a web portal, will it be viewable using IE7, 8, 9 and 10?
2. Is the html5 code generated editable in a tool like Dreamweaver after publishing.
These may be dumb questions, but I am confused by the specs cited on your help pages.
Hi Chris, I don't think any tool will be right for you if you are trying to get html5 to run on IE7 or 8 - these are not considered modern browsers and do not support html5. Microsoft is playing catch up with html5 and have made improvements in IE9 but it is still not ready for prime time. Here is one blog post that outlines some of the issues with it.
I don't believe there is a version of the IE browser that runs on an iPad. With Storyline, there is an option to publish your course as iOS which enables you to play the course on an iPad using the Articulate Modible browser which users would have to download to their iPad. You can also publish in html5 format which can be played on the iPad via the browers on the iPad.
The Articulate document that you refer to in your post, lists out the functions in Storyline and how well they work in iOS or html5 supported browsers. When designing your course, you have to take these things into consideration if you want your course to run smoothly in the different environments.
As for editing in Dreamweaver after publishing, you could do some limited editing of the output using a thirdparty tool but anything you do will be overwritten if you have to republish the output. Storyline was not designed for this and anything you do would be considered a hack to the code.
Nope, IE7 has terrible HTML5 support and IE8 isn't much better. However, you should be able to publish using a single publish workflow to an output that works in the Flash player on IE7 and IE8 and may work in IE9 / IE10 without the Flash player. There's a detection setup on the launch page that branches into three modes, Flash / HTML / iOS player. All you'd need to do is check the boxes.
I would say the output is definitely NOT editable. The content configuration for the HTML5 output is pretty obfuscated. Not fat-finger friendly:(
You can install chrome frame plugin intoIE6, 7 and 8 this does according to microsoft increase the vulnerabilities of old browsers but it is the best you will get
Hi Chris, Steve is correct as usual. It is easy to publish in multiple formats at a single time with Storyline, but you do have to take into consideration the html5 and iOS specifications Articulate has documented if you want to course to run properly in each of the published formats.
This project proposal is from a major multinational company who want an html5 SCORM v1.2 compliant e-learning programme that will run on IE7 (their main browser) but they want to "future-proof" for when they eventually update to IE 8 or perhaps 9. It will need to run successfully on Win XP and Win2000. This is their standard setup and what they use for all their e-Learning. Our tech guys tell me that this is possible if we code from scratch. We have used Storyline for other projects very successfully but it sounds like this is not appropriate. Thanks a lot for the prompt and really helpful advice.
You can make HTML4 or shimmed HTML5 work on IE7 but most features of the HTML5 technology stack aren't supported. The big ones (CSS3 and Canvas) are non starters for IE7.
Like you mention, a hand-coded output might be the best bet. Here's an animation framework that I LOVE for animation in JavaScript. It should work in IE6 and should run pretty fast. It'll also work with HTML5 outputs:
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Hi Chris, I don't think any tool will be right for you if you are trying to get html5 to run on IE7 or 8 - these are not considered modern browsers and do not support html5. Microsoft is playing catch up with html5 and have made improvements in IE9 but it is still not ready for prime time. Here is one blog post that outlines some of the issues with it.
http://www.impressivewebs.com/html5-support-ie9/
I don't believe there is a version of the IE browser that runs on an iPad. With Storyline, there is an option to publish your course as iOS which enables you to play the course on an iPad using the Articulate Modible browser which users would have to download to their iPad. You can also publish in html5 format which can be played on the iPad via the browers on the iPad.
The Articulate document that you refer to in your post, lists out the functions in Storyline and how well they work in iOS or html5 supported browsers. When designing your course, you have to take these things into consideration if you want your course to run smoothly in the different environments.
As for editing in Dreamweaver after publishing, you could do some limited editing of the output using a thirdparty tool but anything you do will be overwritten if you have to republish the output. Storyline was not designed for this and anything you do would be considered a hack to the code.
Nope, IE7 has terrible HTML5 support and IE8 isn't much better. However, you should be able to publish using a single publish workflow to an output that works in the Flash player on IE7 and IE8 and may work in IE9 / IE10 without the Flash player. There's a detection setup on the launch page that branches into three modes, Flash / HTML / iOS player. All you'd need to do is check the boxes.
I would say the output is definitely NOT editable. The content configuration for the HTML5 output is pretty obfuscated. Not fat-finger friendly:(
You can install chrome frame plugin intoIE6, 7 and 8 this does according to microsoft increase the vulnerabilities of old browsers but it is the best you will get
Hi Chris, Steve is correct as usual. It is easy to publish in multiple formats at a single time with Storyline, but you do have to take into consideration the html5 and iOS specifications Articulate has documented if you want to course to run properly in each of the published formats.
Thanks guys
This project proposal is from a major multinational company who want an html5 SCORM v1.2 compliant e-learning programme that will run on IE7 (their main browser) but they want to "future-proof" for when they eventually update to IE 8 or perhaps 9. It will need to run successfully on Win XP and Win2000. This is their standard setup and what they use for all their e-Learning. Our tech guys tell me that this is possible if we code from scratch. We have used Storyline for other projects very successfully but it sounds like this is not appropriate. Thanks a lot for the prompt and really helpful advice.
You can make HTML4 or shimmed HTML5 work on IE7 but most features of the HTML5 technology stack aren't supported. The big ones (CSS3 and Canvas) are non starters for IE7.
Like you mention, a hand-coded output might be the best bet. Here's an animation framework that I LOVE for animation in JavaScript. It should work in IE6 and should run pretty fast. It'll also work with HTML5 outputs:
http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/
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