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JoeDingwerth
JoeDingwerth
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December 11, 2014
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Compatibility and LMS issues with Flash WBTS running in IE11

  • December 11, 2014
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Our IT department recently ugpraded our corporate browser from IE8 to IE11. Since then, we have beeen having several problems with some of our Flash WBT courses:
               - upon completion of the course, communication with our LSO (SAP) is not made so the courses are not marked as complete
               - a few courses having video (FLV or F4V video) are having problems in loading and playing the videos. Changing the Compatibility Setting to Enterprise seems to solve the
                 problem, but it's a case-by-case fix.

These courses experienced no problems prior to IE11. We've been working with our IT department, and have begun discussions with MicroSoft, but so far no luck. Everyone seems to think that the problem is in the way that the Flash Player is working, or not working, in IE11. I believe that we're using Flash Player 11 as our corporate standard. Has anyone else experienced similar problems in running their Flash courses in IE11?

Thanks.

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    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    December 12, 2014

    Each version of Flash Player includes important security fixes.  If you're really using Flash Player 11 as your corporate standard, you're vulnerable to a large body of publicly disclosed issues which have been resolved in current versions.  I doubt that this is actually the case.


    Internet Explorer 11 introduces a number of changes both to how the browser identifies itself to remote web servers, and to how it processes JavaScript intended to target behaviors specific to Internet Explorer.   Unfortunately, this means that content on some sites will be broken until the content provider changes their site to conform to the new development approach required by modern versions of IE.

    There's some decent guidance here, but the bottom line is that a lot of content will need to be patched to work in the world of IE11+.

    Internet Explorer Dev Center

    You can try to work around these issues by using Compatibility View:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

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