[Xerte-dev] Re: Food for thought or wishlist

[Julian Tenney]

Often in a tree there are two icons, the ‘folder’, and the little ‘+’ next to it for opening / closing it, but yes, to be addressed when we try and get the editor all HTML friendly.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk
Sent: 11 November 2013 21:44
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Food for thought or wishlist

Good evening,

I’ve been thinking about (and dealing with) the problem of double-clicking on Mobile/Handheld devices. The browsers don’t support this and interpret the double-click (especially when opening or collapsing Workspace Folders) as two consecutive clicks which  may zoom the page or have other less desirable effects.

The front page opens up perfectly in Firefox on an Android device. However, if you want to get at a file in a folder, e.g. to preview it or get the URL from the properties, you can’t and the folders appear to be ’collapsed’  by default. The problems of double-clicking on handheld devices are well documented on Google and there are a number of workarounds, including the use of a ‘long press’, but to my mind the simplest way might be to make the icon separately clickable so that tapping it with change the state from closed to open or vice-versa. it might also be worth considering whether the adjust the icon to show the current or potential state. Selecting the title of the folder would then be equivalent to Selecting the Folder.

I feel this is a problem that will need to be solved anyway as XoT moves towards an HTML-compliant editor.

Kindest Regards,
Thomas
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