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Responsive design in Storyline 360
The fact that SL does not support responsive content and/or mobile adaptation is beginning to be a real problem. I had a meeting with one of our biggest clients today and they stopped all further content development using SL, based on the fact that it is not good enough for mobile devices. We've tried Captiv8 and their "fluid boxes", it's not easy, but you get one version that is fully mobile adapted/responsive. And you have control over where stuff goes in UI.
Depends on what they mean by "Not good enough for mobile devices". If the content is going to be viewed on a tablet then lock out the vertical orientation which means the user will need to turn the table to Landscape to view. Regarding Smart phones, no one in their right mind will watch an eLearning module on a Smart device, no matter how good it is, the screen is too small. Videos yes, but not elearning modules. It is not a good experience. Smart phones are usually used to watch learning videos and/ or manage their LMS accounts etc, but clients need to understand the limitations of the over used Responsible and Adaptive terminology...it sounds knowledgeable. We often need to educate the clients first. All modules we produce have a warning that they are best viewed on PC's or Tablets in landscape orientation. I lock out the portrait modes so they have to take 1 second to view in Landscape mode. No issues to date. This is all coming from the idiots who record video on their phones in portrait mode and do not realize their TVs etc are not in portrait mode....I have no time for that.... I often get those daft videos from people and asked "Can you make it landscape"..... Maybe if they filmed it in landscape in the first place then.....