Comments for matbury.com http://matbury.com/wordpress Flash & e-Learning blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Flash and HTML5 – Competitors or complementary solutions? by Matt http://matbury.com/wordpress/2010/02/14/flash-and-html5-competitors-or-complementary-solutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Matt Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:57 +0000 http://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=559#comment-2450 =))) * I bet Adobe won't make Flash Player open source. * It would be great to have a competitive open source CODEC out there. * I hope Yahoo! don't go bankrupt. Google needs the competition. =)))

* I bet Adobe won’t make Flash Player open source.

* It would be great to have a competitive open source CODEC out there.

* I hope Yahoo! don’t go bankrupt. Google needs the competition.

]]> Comment on Flash and HTML5 – Competitors or complementary solutions? by Chris http://matbury.com/wordpress/2010/02/14/flash-and-html5-competitors-or-complementary-solutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2449 Chris Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:25:34 +0000 http://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=559#comment-2449 Well, to make a bet for the long run: * Google pushes VP8 open source, making it the most used video-codec. * Adobe includes VP8 into the Flash Player and pushs it open source (since they claim it's closed because of h.264). * Adobe kills .fla to .xfl (http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/r-i-p-fla/#more-3064= * Google presents an own IDE for javascript, that is based on jquery. * Yahoo declares bankruptcy * Microsoft claims Silverlight to only work with a registered version of Windows 11 * Adobe pushs Actionscript open source. * Flash and Javascript are again competing concepts in the web, but now both are open source. Adobe makes a fortune by selling Flash as the ultimate IDE while no longer playing the bad boy. Well, to make a bet for the long run:

* Google pushes VP8 open source, making it the most used video-codec.

* Adobe includes VP8 into the Flash Player and pushs it open source (since they claim it’s closed because of h.264).

* Adobe kills .fla to .xfl (http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/r-i-p-fla/#more-3064=

* Google presents an own IDE for javascript, that is based on jquery.

* Yahoo declares bankruptcy

* Microsoft claims Silverlight to only work with a registered version of Windows 11

* Adobe pushs Actionscript open source.

* Flash and Javascript are again competing concepts in the web, but now both are open source. Adobe makes a fortune by selling Flash as the ultimate IDE while no longer playing the bad boy.

]]> Comment on Flash and HTML5 – Competitors or complementary solutions? by Matt http://matbury.com/wordpress/2010/02/14/flash-and-html5-competitors-or-complementary-solutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2445 Matt Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:07:57 +0000 http://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=559#comment-2445 Hi, I've seen many people claim on blogs and forums that HTML5 will out-perform Flash Player, especially for video. While I very much doubt that any amount of Javascript optimisation could ever outperform Actionscript 3.0, it is quite reasonable to claim that a browser with a built-in video player (one of the ideas behind HTML5) would perform better than a plugin such as Flash. The reality turns out to be somewhat more complicated and can vary greatly depending on what operating system and browser you're using. This article, by Jan Ozer, sheds some much needed light on the subject: http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/flash-player-cpu-hog-or-hot-tamale-it-depends-.html Hi, I’ve seen many people claim on blogs and forums that HTML5 will out-perform Flash Player, especially for video. While I very much doubt that any amount of Javascript optimisation could ever outperform Actionscript 3.0, it is quite reasonable to claim that a browser with a built-in video player (one of the ideas behind HTML5) would perform better than a plugin such as Flash.

The reality turns out to be somewhat more complicated and can vary greatly depending on what operating system and browser you’re using. This article, by Jan Ozer, sheds some much needed light on the subject: http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/flash-player-cpu-hog-or-hot-tamale-it-depends-.html

]]> Comment on Moodle SWF Activity Module developer preview by Matt http://matbury.com/wordpress/2010/02/11/moodle-swf-activity-module-developer-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-2441 Matt Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:36:29 +0000 http://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=551#comment-2441 Hi Kevin, the SWF Activity Module doesn't work with multiple files published by Captivate. Captivate CS4 publishes to a single file wherever possible. The problem is that, in the published Captivate directory, the loader files are hard coded to look for files to load in the same directory. AFAIK, there isn't any way around this. In this case, you can deploy the entire Captivate directory as a resource in Moodle by linking to the published HTML page. I hope this helps. Hi Kevin, the SWF Activity Module doesn’t work with multiple files published by Captivate. Captivate CS4 publishes to a single file wherever possible. The problem is that, in the published Captivate directory, the loader files are hard coded to look for files to load in the same directory. AFAIK, there isn’t any way around this. In this case, you can deploy the entire Captivate directory as a resource in Moodle by linking to the published HTML page.

I hope this helps.

]]> Comment on Flash Word Search learning application by Jacques Ray http://matbury.com/wordpress/2010/02/17/flash-word-search-learning-application/comment-page-1/#comment-2440 Jacques Ray Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:28 +0000 http://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=567#comment-2440 Hey Matt...just got the XML version of the Word Search up and working...very cool, thanks so much for your hard work. I love your idea..."pull vocabulary lists from other database tables in Moodle..." An easy way to do that would seem to be, to simply create an XML vocabulary list like your sample for each course or module...Thanks Again...:] ,Jacques Hey Matt…just got the XML version of the Word Search up and working…very cool, thanks so much for your hard work.
I love your idea…”pull vocabulary lists from other database tables in Moodle…” An easy way to do that would seem to be, to simply create an XML vocabulary list like your sample for each course or module…Thanks Again…:]
,Jacques

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