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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 :( Are you looking into a Publish for iPad or other solution like publishing a course to HMTL5 or something like that?
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Hi guys
Interesting posts, particularly the sleuthing Jenise!
A couple of quick comments:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
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
I think this is the biggest issue at hand. There's a huge rush / push to HTML5 and while it offers some really awesome next-gen Web capability, reliable saturation (even the finishing of the standard itself) is a ways off. I'd settle for an output that gracefully fell back to something that played well on IE6, the iPad, or the gizmotron5000 brain transmission display (where it doesn't matter what the platform is... it just works).:P
Ben Boozer said:
Hello,
I am new to this forum but not new to Articulate or eleaning. This may not be the solution, but consider how in my firm, iPad users can easily access flash because they access content thru a Citrix receiver plugin. Our iPads are running Microsoft Office and a host of other applications. If someone could develop an app for the iPad similar to Citrix, the problem would be solved.
Ben
The Citrix receiver plugin is ok on an iPad, but trying to use a Windows UI on an iPad is frustrating. Most noticeably bad is when you need to scroll a window. Grabbing a narrow Window's scrollbar on an iPad is tedious in the extreme. Maybe Citrix will improve it though in the future.I'm new to this forum, and for that matter, rather new to designing elearning, but I really love Articulate! My only beef is that I have had to use a PC in order to use the application. I am a mac user primarily, so ANY ability to create on a mac or allow people who have idevices to view my products would be WONDERFUL!
Oh, and thanks to all the HEROS here for the great tips and techniques! I have learned so much from you!
Bruce Graham said:
Not sure of the right technical words/terms, but believe there are "PC emulations" that allow for AP09 courses to be created and run just fine on Mac.
Bruce
Indeed there are - lots of our customers use virtualization products like VMWare Fusion or Parallels to run our software on Macs:An Apple (Mac) a Day Doesn’t Have to Keep Articulate Away
Using Articulate software in a Mac environment with Parallels
Oh, I was running it on my macbook pro using bootcamp and it worked fine, however, little things like creating graphics on the 'mac side" and then working with them on the "pc side" was not as fun as if it were native on the mac. I think there are so many of us who use the mac for left and right brained activities that an Articulate for the mac version would be an awesome thing. I finally purchased a pc just because I didn't want to run windows on my mac anymore- it was feeling violated...
As a brand new first time Mac user (just got an iMac Sunday), I will be treading new waters with VMWare Fusion. For the time being though, I'll keep my PC handy when my head starts to smoke learning how to use a Mac.
From what I've learned thus far, there are three ways to run Windows. (correct me if I'm wrong): BootCamp, Parallels, and VMWare Fusion. Of the three and those super users I've spoken to, Fusion is the way to go.
I use VMWare Fusion... actually lately I have been running it in fullscreen mode so that I rarely bother with the Mac side of things...
Makes me wonder why I have the Mac to begin with...
I have 3 OSs set up in Fusion; Win XP, Win 7, and Ubuntu Linux. I use the XP for testing stuff, Win 7 for Articulate/Flash, and Ubuntu for Android Development.
See, learned something new today. Didn't know you can run more than one OS through Fusion. I had planned on keeping my PC (Win XP) for just those reasons as I need to buy a new copy of Win 7 for Fusion anyway.
Another vote for Fusion. Works really well. Running PPT through Unity much of the time (makes it look like a Mac app window). The multi OS VMs are also really handy for testing on alternate platforms. Best of all worlds if you watch your memory usage
