[Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 16 17:14:46 BST 2011


You can use the media and quota tab in properties to upload any file,
it'll then give you the HTML <a> tag for that file. Still a
target="_blank" in there and it should open in a new window anyways.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> From browsing back through various messages I'm pretty certain the answer is
> "no", but just wanted to be 100% certain that I'm understanding Xerte (as a
> newbie).
>
> I want to be able to embed some video in a template created with the online
> toolkit.  The code I've been supplied with is an <embed> and the files are
> mp4. Am I correct that this is a non starter? And is this because Xerte is
> Flash rather than HTML?
>
> And finally, I've seen a few 'new window' solutions... is this a feature of
> the desktop version rather than the online toolkit?
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Lingard,
> Learning Technologist,
> LSE
>
>
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