Publishing Output

When you publish, the output is a series of folders and files. You need them all to be available for a user. Web publishing creates a file named index.html, and that is the starting point of the project.

Hi Hamilton,

Thanks for the reply. I do understand index.html is the starting point. 

When I publish the output to web in Storyline 360, it ends up giving me a zipped folder containing many files of which index.html is one.

Wanted to check if this zipped folder is the html5 file or the index.html needs conversion to html5 ?

The ML in html means markup language. It is a way to use a series of simple, plain commands to a browser instructing it how to display objects on a web page. As such, versions 3, 4, and 5 are not different languages, or different forms. The difference is that the newer versions may (but don’t have to) contain commands that older versions of the browsers may not understand. So what is really important is if your viewers have upgraded their browsers to implement the newest versions of HTML.

What this means is that you do not need, (and in fact, cannot) convert html 4 to html 5. As you create the document, you put in commands. If the browser is at level 4, it can’t understand, and usually ignores level 5 commands.

All of the html files SL creates may, (if the project contains something that requires a command that is new to HTML 5), contain level 5 commands. Some older versions created both a version 4 and version 5 output, which is why you see both in the published output. I think  that may be going away.