[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer

[Thomas Rochford]

Hi Fay,

On a bus travelling back from a Vedic wedding in Walsall so will keep it
short as I don't have FF, However it looks fine on WP7 with IE. My vote is
definitely to keep the utilities off-screen and maximise the learning
space. Probably 800x600 is a good default, however.

Kindest regards,
Thomas

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From: Fay Cross
Sent: 30/03/2012 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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