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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The separation of data is probably the most important thing. It should become irrelevant which tool you use or what </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>you’re</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> publishing to. Xerte is obviously a prime example of that ethos. Digital preservation is becoming a really big deal and I think big organizations are starting to realize that too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And with the increasing number of platforms and configurations to cater for, not only is it important for the data to be easily accessed and manipulated but also a single form of logic creation and rely on the tool to take care of publishing to those different formats. That Xerte is actionscript based almost doesn’t matter as long as the tool can translate that to Android/iOS etc. I’m seeing the same trend in 3D gaming/simulation with Unity where it’s (almost) create once and “single click” publish to a variety of platforms. In the case of Unity they’re adding an export to Flash! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 13:35<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We need to remember that for Xerte, essentially nothing has changed. Delivering content to desktops is still supported, Flash Player on the desktop is going nowhere and adobe are still actively developing the flash player for desktops. Nothing really changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The announcement does put the issue of how to deliver content to mobile devices in the spotlight (it already was), essentially it means we have to treat all devices as we treat iOS where there is, already, no browser based flash player to get content to, so nothing changes as we couldn’t ignore iOS anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have a really powerful thing on our side: the separation of the data and the logic in toolkits. Already we are starting to use that data to drive the delivery of the content onto different platforms (mobile xerte) and plan to think about HTML5 as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Molloy<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 13:21<br><b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>An ad blocker written in HTML 5, or an ad blocker to block adverts for HTML5? ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 12:39<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>I'm starting work on an HTML5 ad blocker...<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:19:04 +0000<br>> From: <a href="mailto:patrick.lockley@googlemail.com">patrick.lockley@googlemail.com</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>> Subject: [Xerte] Mobile flash news<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/09/adobe-flash-mobile-dead">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/09/adobe-flash-mobile-dead</a><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Xerte mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte</a><br>> <br>> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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