What's the problem with HTML5 on Firefox?

Jul 22, 2015

I notice on the system requirements page and also the page the compares Flash and HTML that Firefox is not authorized by Articulate for use with Storyline HTML5 output. Only Chrome is. I'm curious what the problem is with Firefox (which my corporation prefers). Is this an Articulate problem or a Firefox problem? Should we expect Storyline HTML5 to be compatible with Firefox in the foreseeable future?

10 Replies

Steve Flowers

over 8 years ago07/23/15 at 12:01 am (UTC)

Hi John,

Is there something you're seeing that's not working well in Firefox? I've tested recent published outputs in Firefox and haven't noticed anything glaring. Used to be a little more problematic but the most recent release seemed to improve things.

John Black
Author

over 8 years ago07/23/15 at 11:51 am (UTC)

We've always used Flash, Steve. I'm just curious about switching to HTML5. I was hoping someone from Articulate would provide some specifics about why Firefox is not authorized and what we should anticipate for the future. I'm encouraged to hear that you are not finding problems in the most recent release.

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 8 years ago07/23/15 at 1:48 pm (UTC)

Hi John! I cannot speak to the why, but here’s how Storyline determines which version of your content to display when learners view it.

Steve Flowers

over 8 years ago07/23/15 at 2:51 pm (UTC)

Ah. I can think of one thing that won't work in Firefox... Firefox doesn't handle MP4's as far as I know. This might be a serious problem if you're using video.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats

That said, you might be able to hack webm into the player but you'd need to do that post publish.

Alex Arathoon

8 years ago03/29/16 at 9:54 pm (UTC)

Hi all, we've detected that sliders don't work in Firefox. We're using (as of this post) the latest v.45.0.1. It's simply unresponsive however, in earlier tests I thought it did. We will just post system requirements advising the supported browsers for HTML5.

Crystal Horn
Staff

8 years ago03/30/16 at 1:36 am (UTC)

Hey all...I wanted to drop this resource in here too:

https://html5test.com/index.html

This website evaluates your browser and allows you to compare several browsers for html5 support. It's a neat glance at a breakdown of different areas of performance and response to html5 content.

Sajna Thomas

over 6 years ago01/10/18 at 7:40 am (UTC)

Hi,

I have created a data entry text field in SL3. When i test the output in FireFox (57.0.4 (64-bit)), I am unable to edit the text that I enter in the field.