{"id":1321,"date":"2010-05-03T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/alternatives-to-flash\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:03:00","slug":"alternatives-to-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/alternatives-to-flash.html","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Flash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwzone.net\/downloads\/images\/flash-iphone.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fwzone.net\/downloads\/images\/flash-iphone.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am participating this summer in a workshop on technology and teaching, and for some of what I am interested in exploring\/creating, Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash would have been a natural tool to use to develop interactive material. But Apple seems to be\u00a0refusing to make devices that support\u00a0Flash, and even if that doesn\u2019t impact the use of Flash, it certainly would prevent students from using a Flash-based web site or other interactive materials if they are Mac users.<\/p>\n<p>And so I\u2019m curious what alternatives there are. I\u2019ve come across some freeware programs to create animations, but many of them simply create \u201cFlash\u201d animations, and so presumably would still be incompatible with iPads and other such devices. Does Shockwave face the same compatibility issues on Mac devices? 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