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jeff
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15 years ago

Articulate on iPads?

Hi Team, Was wondering how you plan to deal with the increasing amount of iPad users. I know that in my company they are running pilots with them but my Articulate courses won't run on them :( Ar...
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RobNachum
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15 years ago

Hi guys

Interesting posts, particularly the sleuthing Jenise!

A couple of quick comments:

  1. Before everyone gets [more] bent out of shape over html5 and iPads, could we PLEASE get Articulate to compile to AS3! PLEASE! (Apologies if I've missed something though). That would give us so much more flexibility with what we do with our custom flash player that streams video. It would allow for mp4s as well as flvs plus heaps more reporting options. PLEASE.
  2. The Flash / HTML5 issue is interesting. Personally I don't think it is a big issue given that (from our understanding) so many U.S. [corporate] desktops are still on IE6 so getting html5 browser compatibility is still years off. Happy to be corrected though.
  3. iPad vs Android. This is an interesting debate but not really comparing Apples with Apples (pun intended). As a colleague recently pointed out to me iPad (as hardware) still massively outsells any other hardware BRAND/model that may be running Android. It is why car makers say they are iPod compatible not USB...

Believe me, I am much more in favour of Android or industry standards and grossly dislike Apple's forced rejection of Flash (it is really the designers not Flash itself that causes most of the problems - no offence to anyone here of course). But three areas that I work within that are Mac or Apple device "pervasive" are medicine, AV and design. And when we go to conferences people are flashing their iPads around (again, pun intended). It will be interesting to see if other tablets start to penetrate this year. I certainly hope so. Go Android.

But can we get AS3 compilation first...?

Cheers

Rob

p.s. It is Saturday morning and I'm usually reading the paper. Thanks!