[Xerte-dev] rss containing html5 links

[Ron Mitchell]

Hi all

I've been testing how to have the rss feeds display html5 links instead of
flash links and have just committed some changes to enable this. 

 

I discovered something I never knew before last week that appending ?export
to the end of /rss.php changes the feed and links to show the LO's set for
the export feed. So now with the changes I've committed appending ?html5 (or
&html5 if there are other parameters like username and/or foldername)
changes the links to play the html5 version rather than flash version. I
think the RSS feeds become even more useful when it comes to mobile device
consumption.

 

I've uploaded these changes to the techdis install so for example:

 

Normal rss feed: http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php

HTML5 version http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?html5

 

Likewise:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&html5

 

and also:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=t
ests

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=t
ests&html5

 

This raises a couple of questions:

 

1. Should these links or at the very least instructions be displayed in the
RSS properties panel?

 

2. I've tested with apache set to true and had to obviously add additional
lines in the .htaccess. I looked at adding these changes to htaccess.conf in
the setup folder but that doesn't seem to have all the current links
required even without the additional lines required for html5. Has anyone
been keeping that up-to-date?

 

Cheers

Ron

 

 

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