[Xerte] maxos

[Julian Tenney]

Check the code. The youtube rss page calls directly to
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos? - it doesn't use rss_proxy.
For individual youtube videos, we load their chrome-less player directly
and use it's API, again here's no toolkits server-side stuff required.
The You tube stuff ought to work..?

 

For RSS we use this:

 

if (templatePath.indexOf('modules/xerte') == -1){ //code is not running
in toolkits

  feedURL = pageIcon.templateData.rss[0].url;

} else { //code is running elsewhere - locally is fine because local
files can still request xml - but on another web server they can't

  feedURL = _level0.site_url + 'rss_proxy.php?rss=' +
pageIcon.templateData.rss[0].url;

}

 

to ask for rss_proxy to get involved only if the code is running in
toolkits. Locally, this should work fine - the same code is in the wiki
page.

 

The problem comes when you put the piece onto another web server. Then
you have the cross-domain issues, and our solution for that was to use
rss_proxy (it means the flash player can request and get xml from a web
server that hasn't got a corssdomain.xml file).

 

The solution is to use rss_proxy, but our problem is knowing where it is
to point to once content has been exported, or whether in fact it is a
good idea to have content exported from toolkits, maybe headed over to
someone else, but still draws on ours - or your rss_proxy.php.

 

Try hardcoding the path to your rss_proxy into the code above: that
should work. If your rss_proxy is on maxos (i.e. a local web server
running on your machine), then there is a further problem because it
probably won't be available to the content when it needs it, even if it
did have some idea where to find it.

 

J

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 04 August 2010 20:49
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] maxos

 

Hi Thomas

I wouldn't waste any time testing - it's fact not theory! :-) When
online those pages use a php page which isn't and can't be part of the
exported files.

 

And as you might hear in my youtube screencasts we possibly disagree
about recommending SCORM too ;-)

 

Regards

Ron

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rochford,
Thomas
Sent: 04 August 2010 20:40
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] maxos

 

Hi David,

 

I haven't seen *this* problem in the wild yet! Could it be that there is
some filtering taking place on the Institutional server? Would you be
happy to send me a copy of the LO so I can try it from our Moodle. 

 

You could also try uploading it to the Moodle server on the stick and
seeing if it works from there, perhaps. This is what I will do if you
send me the LO.  This would also test Ron's theory.

 

Also I always advise people to use the SCORM format. I'm at a loss to
think why this might work better as Moodle doesn't need SCORM as far as
I know, but at least it means you don't need to unzip it

 

Feel free to call me if you wish (number below)'

 

Kindest Regards,

Thomas

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Sugden
Sent: 04 August 2010 8:03 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] maxos

 

Hi there,

I'm using Maxos. I have created a LO with YouTube video and Wikipedia
(everything else is working ok).

During production, everything works well when zipped up and uploaded to
a Moodle (and employed via Zip > unzip > index.htm) the wikipedia page
doesn't show (i.e. the page shows but without content - at all) and the
YouTube videos refuse to be controlled .. i.e. once they are playing
there is no pausing or stopping them.

Any advice?

David

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