HTML5 & Flash animations in Captivate

[arashmaz]

Hi

I have a basic question about animation in Captivate. I've been learning Edge animate recently as you can add Javascript actions to animations to create animated buttons, for example.

As it's all HTML5, it'll only work in a captivate project published in HTML5.

I've been told the LMS we use at our company is old and doesn't support HTML5, although I'm going to test this as I thought it would be down to the browser more than the LMS??

Anyway, if you create a flash animation in say Animate CC can you only add action script to it? Or would you be able to use javascript instead to trigger things Captivate, like a next button for example?

Thanks

[RodWard]

LMS HTML5 compatibility is not only affected by your browser version.  The LMS player coding also needs to be compatible and if that was coded a long time ago and hasn't been updated for the mobile world then it could contain code that will not work on mobiles.

[arashmaz]

Hi RodWard, thanks for your swift reply.

I've just finish testing a small project using HTML5 animated buttons and a short quiz. It loads and works fine in Google Chrome which is now installed on all the companies machines. Reporting is all fine too. However, there is an error message when launched in the company's default browser, Internet Explorer 9 about document mode. Asking to press F12 to change/check something. But it appears F12 doesn't work when pressed (possibly disabled by the IT department).

[RodWard]

F12 in most web browsers will open the Console to show you code and server calls information.  I would not be surprised the the IT mavens would have disabled that in a corporate environment.