[Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Sep 19 14:42:09 BST 2013 

Looks nice!

I also don't see any reason why not to have the logos, especially since 
they are configurable if you want!

Theming would be nice, although that theming for the LO's has a higher 
priority. And like John says, Theming is likely to improve the quality 
of the code.

Tom

Op 19-9-2013 15:29, Smith, John schreef:
>
> I don't see any reason not to have UoN logos there... their IPR after 
> all and if it's relatively easy to change then...
>
> I agree theming would be good... I think we should aim for a very 
> clean file and try to remove all inline styles and inline javascript 
> where possible. Then it will be a case of just changing css. This 
> would allow  for example similar invert and black-on-yellow modes to 
> address Alistairs requirements without too much effort...
>
> The main xenith engine file isn't quite as lean as it could be but at 
> least the layout parts are pretty clean of code/style -- I still have 
> a few things to do in there then I'm done with that file for a while 
> -- happier now that it plays in IE6-10 quite well now (although there 
> is still that compatibility mode issue)...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:18 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> No it was the HTML5 media viewer, a few other things. I've got some 
> potential deigns to show you guys actually, see attached. I'm not 100% 
> happy with any of them just yet, but I think the elements / colours 
> are there.
>
> Maybe we should do this as a theming thing, then people can choose?
>
> I also wonder (quietly) whether we should have the UoN logos in there 
> or not.
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 14:14
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> Yes, what has Nikodem been working on? The workspace redesign?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:10 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> That all sounds good, thanks. Let's let it roll a couple of week s 
> then. The reason for updating our code here is so Nikodem's changes 
> can go out, and it will just be easier to drop the whole file set over 
> the top than check whether anything has changed in dependent files 
> (though I don't think it has).
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 14:08
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> Alistair is looking at it, few minor tweaks to get it ready for 
> consumption... has a lot of model specific stuff (mainly class and id 
> names used by specific models for colour changing purposes) in there 
> though which I don't really want as it makes maintenance a nightmare...
>
> What I have started though, that should help a lot with that is I've 
> modularized xenith core and about 10 or so of the page models so that 
> they can load at any time and they then augment objects/arrays in 
> xenith as required by them -- they are fully encapsulated in a closure 
> so don't pollute global and this is the obvious place to put class/id 
> names that are required for colour changer...
>
> That will be for v2.2+ though -- can't get the other models done 
> before xmas I doubt as there are a few changes to the process... I 
> think you'll like it though. I've managed to split xenith itself down 
> into modules, grouping things like glossary, etc so that they 
> everything to do with that is in the one file and it has it's own 
> private and public vars...
>
> For Crockford fans I've used 3 different, module patterns to achieve 
> different augmentations to the new XENITH object... will write up in 
> the wiki when I get them done...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:43 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> How long do you need?
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 09:38
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> The colourswitcher button should go in... it's nearly ready...
>
> There have been enough fixes I think to warrant a new release, if only 
> to spur people to patch things like the previous youtube issue and the 
> stripslashes problem with moodle integration...
>
> But... there are a few things that don't seem to be working properly 
> at present. Categories and Licences in management being the ones that 
> immediately spring to mind... not much though...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:18 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Toolkits 2.1
>
> We'd quite like to update our install to the latest files, so I 
> thought maybe we should do a 2.1 and put all the more recent changes 
> out there. It's been six months since the last build was made.
>
> Do you see any problems with this?
>
> Anyone got anything that would be good to include?
>
> Might be a good github trial as well...
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