[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
Ron Mitchell
ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Mon Jul 7 15:47:42 BST 2014
Hi John
just to confirm for anyone reading this thread and for Douglas to respond
further...
As far as my tests http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711 displays
and plays fine without being off screen for me on all of the following:
Safari on iPad 1st Gen
Safari on iPad with Retina display
Safari on Windows 7
Safari on Mac
I don't often test these days on my old iPad 1st Gen but I think we would
hear or would have heard from others if this was a common issue. Not sure
why this would be happening for Douglas either but perhaps he can test
further and let us know.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 07 July 2014 15:28
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
Hi Ron,
No, I don't have access to a Gen 1 ipad so haven't been able to test but i'm
sure Fay would have most likely tested on an iPad 1 during the Xenith
development. We have upgraded mediaelements since then so I thought it could
be that but if you are saying it works then i'm at a loss...
I initially assumed it was Mac Safari too.
Regards,
John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of the
School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that
all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
________________________________________
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
[ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
Sent: 07 July 2014 15:08
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
Hi John
have you been able to replicate the reported issue?
I hadn't noticed the reference to older iPads until your reply but just also
tested on my older iPad 1 and that works fine for me too. e.g.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711 displays and plays fine
without being off screen.
HTH
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 07 July 2014 14:54
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
Hi,
It's one of those situations where we can't support every browser on every
legacy platform, albeit that the older iPads are only a few years old now...
We've had to do the same with limited support for <IE9 since there is only
so much time resource that each of us can dedicate to the project.
It's unfortunate but even a lot of the bigger JS libraries/frameworks are
moving away from legacy browser support which takes a massive time to
develop for and test and also greatly bloats the code and resulting download
times.
I'm a little curious as to why the video seems to load but is collapsed. We
use mediaelement.js in Xerte to play the videos and it could be that it is
they who do not support the Safari version on older iPads...
Regards,
John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of the
School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that
all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
________________________________________
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Douglas Brown
[dbrown61 at une.edu.au]
Sent: 07 July 2014 02:12
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
John,
I ran the
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711
In Google Chrome and Firefox and it didn¹t happen. The culprit was Safari.
What¹s unfortunate is that Safari tends to be the only browser one can run
with the earlier versions of iPads. But since it seems to be Safari that is
causing the issue, I suppose there¹s nothing the good people running Xerte
can do to overcome it :/
Cheers,
Douglas Brown
Online Learning Designer
Learning Innovations Hub
Parramatta Future Campus
Level 2, 232 Church Street
Parramatta NSW 2150 Australia
Phone 0477 740 230
www.une.edu.au <http://www.une.edu.au/>
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On 7/07/2014 10:11 am, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi Douglas
>
>That is not normal behaviour so i'm curious as to where you are loading
>that learning object from. Is Xerte running locally on your Mac or are
>you loading it from a server?
>
>Also, which browser are you using? I use Xerte on a Mac and have never
>seen that behaviour before so would advise you ti check the developer
>console for errors or missing (404) files.
>
>Regards
>
>John Smith
>Learning Technologist
>School of Health and Life Sciences
>
>Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
>Douglas Brown <dbrown61 at une.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
>While I have been impressed with Xerte¹s functionalities, I find this
>one small aspect a bit distractingŠ see the Screen Capture of what I see.
>
>[cid:4602426C-B965-4360-8221-186F3CEB44F8]
>
>I just imagine the Learner feeling a bit anxious about the fact that
>once the Video closes you can¹t simply click and drag it open. And
>there is whole pile of white space where the Video could sit.
>
>I¹m running a Mac.
>
>Something to fix in the next version, eh?
>
>Cheers,
>[cid:FEBFE5A2-C9CE-4291-8271-18390C45B296]
>
>Douglas Brown
>Online Learning Designer
>Learning Innovations Hub
>
>Parramatta Future Campus
>Level 2, 232 Church Street
>Parramatta NSW 2150 Australia
>
>Phone 0477 740 230
>
>www.une.edu.au<http://www.une.edu.au/>
>
>CRICOS Provider Code 00003G
>[cid:9377AD25-F3FB-4131-BAC9-EA2D7791196E]
>
>From: Julian Tenney
><Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Reply-To: Xerte discussion list
><xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Date: Friday, 4 July 2014 6:48 pm
>To: "Xerte discussion list
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><xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Subject: [Xerte] Creating Animation
>
>I¹m just wondering what approaches people use for this sort of thing:
>we have a lecturer who wants to create animation simply. He¹s currently
>using powerpoint to create this sort of thing:
>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711
>
>I think the results are really good, and it¹s taken some time to get
>right. I¹m interested in optimising the approach a bit, to make it fast
>and efficient: maybe this is the best way of doing it, maybe there are
>others?
>
>What I¹m interested in is what approaches / tools do people use for
>this sort of thing? It doesn¹t have to be high end output: it could be
>a mixture of screen capture, whilst dragging things around and
>narrating the process for example. We¹re not looking to turn staff into
>Flash developers, it¹s more about simple approaches that are easy and
>quick to do.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Julian
>
>
>
>
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