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IMPORTANT! - a fix if you have a PLAY button appearing at start of courses
OK, Articulate rolled out an update to Storyline and it seems that now when publishing a course, instead of auto-playing (as before) it now puts a nasty big PLAY button on the first screen.
Hopefu...
Ted, this is my understanding: I checked some old courses published before the last SL update, and they work too. However, some not. In particular, they always don't work in the Review platform and in local too. From my understanding, some LMSs (like Moodle for example) have a way of overriding the do-not-autoplay setting by Chrome, and the courses play along well... however I think Articulate has no way of knowing the final deployment environment of the course, so the (ugly) button was the quickest save-all solution for this situation.
I think that this was mainly Chrome developer's fault, because obviously did not took in consideration that HTML5 is not only used for websites today, but also for games, e-learning, apps, and all other sorts of things. All situations in which the autoplay of video and audio is not only well-accepted by users, but somewhat necessary for the user experience...
I too hope that this get solved too from one of the two sides, because I think anyone is fearing lots of old clients coming back and complaying that the courses aren't working... :-(
