[Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news

Fri Nov 11 15:12:08 GMT 2011

I spend a lot of my time "updating" 10 years worth of large aging projects
from Director into Xerte & Flash to run on the web or in clients' LMS
systems. Don't know how similar Director is/was to Authorware, but the only
way I can figure out to do it is to extract all the text & assets and
basically recreate everything.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  There is a way, but no one seems interested. ;-)
>
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:51:04 +0000
>
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news
>
> Quite. When Authorware went away, a lot of people were left with an awful
> lot of proprietary content that didn't work well on the web and was
> difficult to do anything with to get it into a different format. That
> should have been a major lesson learned.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Molloy
> *Sent:* 10 November 2011 14:15
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news
>
>
>
> The separation of data is probably the most important thing. It should
> become irrelevant which tool you use or what you’re 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.
>
>
>
> 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!
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 10 November 2011 13:35
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Andrew Molloy
> *Sent:* 10 November 2011 13:21
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news
>
>
>
> An ad blocker written in HTML 5, or an ad blocker to block adverts for
> HTML5? ;-)
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 10 November 2011 12:39
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news
>
>
>
>
> I'm starting work on an HTML5 ad blocker...
>
> > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:19:04 +0000
> > From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] Mobile flash news
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/09/adobe-flash-mobile-dead
> >
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