[Xerte-dev] Re: noob xerte questions

[Tom Reijnders]

Welcome Alex,

Let me give it a shot, others will certainly fill in the gaps or correct 
my mistakes... ;-)

Before reading these answers, please be aware that the HTML5 is still 
very much a work in progress. It is not finished yet.

1. Enabling HTML5. Depending on what you want:
   - In the wizard, press Ctrl+Play to preview in HTML5
   - When embedding the code, do the opposite, replace the play.html.php 
in the url with play_html5.php

In the near future, (target date is around Easter for now) the default 
output will be HTML5. Also see

http://xerte.org.uk/index.php/component/content/article/125-english/features-en/137-conversion-progress


2. Exporting in HTML5 is (as far as I know) not implemented yet.
3. After the conversions of all the template pages that currently are 
available in Flash to HTML5 is finished, Fay promised to write a 
document on how the CSS is structured and what the best way for 
customization is.
4. Don't know. Not to my knowledge. It shouldn't be to difficult to 
write though, as all the information you need is in an .xml file/structure.
5. You can in HTML5. You can also in flash, buty not automatically. For 
flash you would need to construct the url yourself.

To quote a recent message in the dev list:

In the flash version I set it to work with the following:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&linkID=PG1352114465620

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&page=3

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=159&pageID=advanced

Sounds like pageID might not be needed anymore but can't see there being 
any hurt in including it.


Regards,

Tom

Op 8-2-2013 9:57, Furr A.D. schreef:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm new to the list, and also new to xerte so please forgive my 
> ignorance. I'm an experienced PHP developer (and flash) but don't know 
> my way round xerte...yet.
>
> I was after some pointers for the following, and searching the 
> archives didn't yield much. If they've been answered elsewhere (as I'm 
> sure they are common queries) then please point me in that direction!
> So on to the questions:
>
> *1.**Enabling HTMl5 output
> *Is the only way to switch on HTML output to rename play_html5.php > 
> play.php and preview_html5.php > preview.php ? Or am I missing an 
> obvious interface.**
>
> *2.**Exporting as HTML5
> *Currently the export  process is still as flash -- I'm assuming this 
> is coming, or if it's already there how do I switch it on?**
>
> *3.**Modifying the look and feel (HTML version)
> *Like most institutions we'd like to customise the styles somewhat. 
> Are there any guidelines how to do this via the templates folder? I'm 
> proficient in CSS but would simply like to know which key DIVs I need 
> to override to add logos / new colours for the header and footer etc 
> of the output file**
>
> *4.**Custom nav menu?
> *Possibly a more advanced query -- is there a function to spit out nav 
> menu of the object onto a template? For some projects we'd like to 
> menu to stay up on all pages, and I assume this would require a custom 
> template. I'm hoping there is a php function we can call to spit this 
> out (<ul> list?) onto a page where required.**
>
> *5.**Bookmarking individual pages
> *I can't see an obvious way of bookmarking an individual page within a 
> learning object as its rendered dynamically (Ajax? JS innderDiv?) - 
>  I'm assuming individual page bookmarking isn't possible, can anyone 
> confirm?**
>
> **
>
> Thanks in advance -- I'm trying to get the University of Southampton 
> on board (mostly there) but allowing customisation would seal the deal.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex
>
> Dr Alex Furr
>
> eLearning Developer and Consultant
> Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education
>
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