[Year 12 IT Apps] elearning standards

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Crikey, imagine if we did not recommend that we teach HTML at one point because of this concern. It would have held up things for a decade! It is just that many are jumping ahead with advanced features before details about the standard have been hammered out (these things take years). I recall that we saw much the same thing happening with images and tables with ye olde HTML. 

The core of HTML5 has been implemented and adopted by most browsers and many websites. 
http://html5test.com/ (does your browser support HTML5?)

Is there any popular browser that does not already support HTML5?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Popularity 

Don't mind the fall-back mechanism suggested in the research report, we need to cater for all groups. Even those still using IE6 I suppose ;-) I guess that unlike VET, we have this luxury in the year 11IT area when we reflect upon audience etc. I secretly enjoy cross-browser conflicts we bump into for all the learning opportunities that they provide for challenging and teaching students. My 2 cents worth .. 

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

On 16/05/2013, at 11:16 AM, Kevork KROZIAN <kkrozian at ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>  
> Sorry for the cross posts.
>  
> I have been required to complete a survey regarding VET and elearning.  
> There has been reference to eight nationally endorsed VET E-standards for training http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/documents/2013-recommended-vet-estandards.docx .  
> It makes for interesting reading especially the reference to HTML5:
>  
> “Unfortunately HTML5 is not recommended at this time for use in development of content intended for widespread use in the VET sector because of inconsistent implementation by browser developers. Please see the E-standards for Training 2011 HTML5 Research report (Opens in new window). If you choose to use HTML5 functionality you should provide a fall back mechanism for browsers not supporting that functionality.”
>  
> The home page http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/technical_standards/index.php  would be a valuable reference also.
>  
>  
> Kind Regards
>  
> Kevork Krozian
> IT Pathways Manager
> Ringwood Trade Training Facility
> Tel: 0419 356 034
>  
> 
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