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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve added some notes below about the HTML5 comments...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Rochford<br><b>Sent:</b> 29 November 2012 17:29<br><b>To:</b> xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Cc:</b> RSC-E-TEAM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] MAXOS Import/Export problems with XoT 1.8<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Good evening everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I’m pleased to say that these are now largely resolved. Mainly because of the enhanced error reporting that seems to be available in IE 10 running on Windows 8, which pointed up some errors on my part and gave me some ideas for workarounds for others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Here is a summary of what I did and what I found out inr terms of compatibility. If you’re not familiar with W8 it comes in two flavours –Metro and Desktop. Metro doesn’t support Flash or Java at all, but you can use them in the desktop version. IE 10 under metro does not natively play mp3 files either, you have to start up the music app in a separate window, so synchronisation is a bit of a problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In order to get the import function to work at all with files larger than about 6.5Mb I did the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>1 Jacked up the php.ini default memory allocation from 8Mb to 64Mb<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>2 Made the \xampp\htdocs\toolkits\import drive shareable by 'Everyone' with full control<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>3 Added an entry in the httpd.conf file to all 'All' and 'Multiviews' on the above drive<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I may not have needed to do all these.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I couldn't get "Page Types" (<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/export_560">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/export_560</a>) to load at all - blank file name and type reported. Put it in manually, exported it and then it re-imported OK.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I tried both Deployment and Archive export for the Page Types LO, both worked, but the Deployment export did not include the background image of the Trent Building.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Using IE 10 under Windows 8 (Not sure if there's any option under W8!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>==============================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The 'Contents' button at the top doesn't do anything except return you to the start of the module. Not even in backwards compastibility mode.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I couldn't get "Page Types" (<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/export_560">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/export_560</a>) to load at all - blank file name and type reported. Put it in manually, exported it and then it re-imported OK.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I tried both Deployment and Archive export for the Page Types LO, both worked, but the Deployment export did not include the background image of the Trent Building after importing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I get no sound from the Albert Einstein Interview, but there is no problem with the one on subtraction nor with Julian's Mandolin.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In order to get the import function to work at all with files larger than about 6.5Mb I did the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>1 Jacked up the php.ini default memory allocation from 8Mb to 64Mb<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>2 Made the \xampp\htdocs\toolkits\import drive shareable by 'Everyone' with full control<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>3 Added an entry in the httpd.conf file to all 'All' and 'Multiviews' on the above drive<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>the HTML 5 version has some problems with IE 10 and W8 using the metro interface as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>============================================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>.mp3 isn't supported in IE 10 (Metro Version). You have to download the file and play it in the 'Music' app<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>.flv and flash components aren't supported at all of course. You have to download the file and play it back in a Desktop app.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>JAVA isn't supported so no JMOL viewer either.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I get a message saying the browser does not fully support page 6 (the yellow path up Clag Glas). Not quite sure why unless there should be a sound file here<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:red'>It uses the canvas html5 tag but it’s currently set to use IE8 mode to solve a different problem and IE8 doesn’t support that tag. I need to look into how I can avoid forcing it to IE8 without breaking other things<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The link to slide share didn't work in page 27<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='color:red'>I fixed a bug on this yesterday so this may now work using the new page model in svn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>the Second Life video in page 49 works well with both sound and video. Maybe the answer to the earlier problems is to upload to YouTube and embed the link.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The popup contents menu DOES work<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Using the 'Desktop' Interface for IE 10 there are fewer problems because flash and java are available<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>=====================================================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I get the message saying the browser does not fully support page 6 (the yellow path up Clag Glas). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Still no sound from Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='color:red'>I don’t think there is any sound for this video!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The subtraction demo in Page 213 works except that the controls don't show so you can't stop it. It just goes on indefinitely until you close the browser<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:red'>I’ll fix this now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The JMOL Viewer worked fine once I'd installed JAVA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The same is true for Slide share<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>My Apologies if none of this is ‘news’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>At least I’ve got something working for the demo tomorrow, but unless people are desperate out there I don’t think there’s any point in a full release until 1.9 arrives.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kindest Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>==========================================================<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thomas Rochford, e-Learning Advisor, JISC Regional Support Centre - Eastern</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Tel: 07500 669002, 01223 564749 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eml: </span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><a href="mailto:thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk">thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk</a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Skype: cambridge.serendipity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>RSCs - Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>RSC Eastern welcomes feedback on our services via <a href="mailto:support@rsc-eastern.ac.uk">support@rsc-eastern.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:silver'><img border=0 width=28 height=22 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CDCEE4.FD8F1350" alt="Description: Description: Description: cid:image002.jpg@01C8A62B.F6CF3B80"></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#99CC00'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#99CC00'>Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#969696'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>