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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the first scenario, you have all the content as .xml in the .rlo. Do as you like with it - it ought to be easy enough to at least parse out the text and graphics and build a crude alternative version for html / css / javascript.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Page Templates might have a lot more mileage as you could take each page type, look a the .xml used to drive the template, and page type by page type create a javascript or PHP class that would provide the same / similar functionality.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are users without the Flash Player, but there's not enough of them to trouble us really, and they can be directed to install it, or to a machine that has it. It's been a pretty much standard part of windows now for years, and any machine from the last four years (with FP8) will run Xerte content OK. By the time you solve the problem, it probably won't be a problem anymore...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a more compelling reason to take the .xml and process it into a printable version of the piece perhaps.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Hal MacLean<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 16/03/2009 17:54<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Xerte] custom interfacy<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Thanks Julian - I wasn't actually expecting you chaps to do it, as I have some coders here who could be usefully engaged in doing the necessary... however, what I am hearing is that it really isn't worthwhile and the gains for doing it will likely be small. What I suspect we will do is provide two versions of the object, should it be required... concentrating on the Xerte version for the full user experience, and a much more simple version using Javascript for the compatibility with the client's end browser capability.
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<DIV>I'd still like a sample file to explore which uses some of the interactivity icon tools without too much scripting ... is there anything like that available?<BR>
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<DIV>On 16 Mar 2009, at 16:07, Julian Tenney wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif">The best way to tackle it would be to have an HTML player for Page Templates .xml, and recreate a kind of native html based engine to parse it, but that would be hard enough to do. Having *any* xerte file fall over gracefully to html is a huge undertaking, and not one we are going to do.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif">>All in all Xerte looks to be extremely good, but I'd think could be improved by also providing an interface that doesn't rely on FLash - it'll not be as good looking, but may reach the elusive 2% :-)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif"><BR>It doesn't seem we are talking strictly about disabled user accessibility here. Flash is and continues to make gains in that area.<BR><BR>Unless I'm reading you wrong, it's really users who are not allowed to install Flash.<BR><BR>While I can empathize with your situation, adding that functionality to Xerte would be truly a "labour of love".<BR><BR>Dave<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR><BR></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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