[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer

Fri Mar 30 16:32:47 BST 2012

Some one once went through some apple code and found a lot of F
Microsoft comments.

Re jquery - the first bit I assume is loading the XML dynamically?
So this will mean a few choices later on (re hard writing files -
running this locally?)

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
> My favourite was finding:
>
> <--! users are evil -->
>
> on line 6578 of some monster .asp page
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:24:16 +0100
>> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer
>>
>> So you went with Jquery then?
>>
>> Also, liking the comments, brings back happy memories of finding things
>> like
>>
>> // no idea how this works
>>
>> in code comments
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
>> > What Language are you writing this in? And are you going to try to
>> > interpret
>> > existing LO's?
>> >
>> > Looks good!
>> >
>> > Op 30-3-2012 17:11, Julian Tenney schreef:
>> >
>> > Great!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We want to use this as a way of letting the development take place in
>> > full
>> > view, so we can surface issues and questions as they arise, and debate
>> > the
>> > various things we need to debate here. It will greatly aid the project
>> > if
>> > you can help by chipping in thoughts and observations as we go along –
>> > accessibility is an area to be concerned with, and things will be quite
>> > different in HTML than in Flash, for obvious reasons, and we need to
>> > think
>> > about the framework for developers to extend the system with their own
>> > templates: so if you have any thought s about how this should work from
>> > a
>> > developers point of view please pipe up.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This is a brilliant start! Have a great weekend,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
>> > Sent: 30 March 2012 16:03
>> > To: For Xerte technical developers
>> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] HTML5 viewer
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This week the project to make a HTML5 viewer for Toolkits started.  You
>> > can
>> > view an work in progress example of it here
>> > http://ltdev.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/prototypeInterface.htm (best to
>> > view
>> > in Firefox at the moment - the css hasn’t been sorted properly yet)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At the moment it’s obviously very rough and looks terrible!  I’ve added
>> > all
>> > the optional properties to the LO so I can make sure everything that
>> > works
>> > in the Flash version works here too (background image, icon, menu page,
>> > menu
>> > image etc.).  The aim is to get the main interface finalised before we
>> > start
>> > work on any of the page models so although it is getting info from an
>> > xml
>> > file to load in the correct page type and give it a title, everything
>> > else
>> > on each page is currently fixed.  The page models are separate html
>> > files
>> > that are loaded in to the main interface html.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A few things have come up as I’ve been working on this that you might
>> > have
>> > opinions on:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We were thinking of getting rid of a lot of the options at the bottom of
>> > the
>> > Flash version (Font / Text Size etc.) and have the browser setting deal
>> > with
>> > this.  What do you think about the size of it though – fix it at 800 x
>> > 600
>> > or have it automatically resize?  Do you think we will still need an
>> > option
>> > to swap views?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > In this version there’s a main style sheet and you can also add styles
>> > to
>> > each page model html file if there’s any stuff specific to that model.
>> > This
>> > seems to work ok but I was wondering what would happen if you uploaded a
>> > custom style sheet for the LO – these override the main one but not the
>> > model specific styles.  For those who have made custom interfaces for
>> > projects in the past is this likely to be a problem?  I would have
>> > thought
>> > the styles in the models will be more general layout things.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Fay
>> >
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