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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Xerte could move in this direction, yes, but its a sizable piece of work. </FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Right now, you can get at the underlying xml for your projects, so you, or other developers can ge at that and present it using whatever technology you like. You can also develop templates to edit the xml data conveniently. It is helpful to think of Xerte Online Toolkits as an xml editor, which currently pushes the output to a Flash based runtime. It can push it out to lots of other things too, so if you can write an iPhone app that can access the .xml, you can parse it and present it on the iPhone. Can iPhone apps access an external .xml file?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Mark Gray<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 25/06/2010 21:00<BR><B>To:</B> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Xerte] Xerte, flash and investing my time<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hello all, I have a question.<BR><BR>I've just taken voluntary redundancy from my university. I'm currently half way through a masters in Blended and Online Education (Napier, Edinburgh). I've been playing with xerte online toolkits for some time now and really like it, but haven't really got to grips with xerte.exe as my actionscript knowledge is negligible. I am fairly competent in html, css and understand what xml is.<BR><BR>Anyway my question is this, I am about to invest a large amount of my time in developing some key skills for working with online learning and I am very drawn to the flexibility of xerte, but, given that it is flash based do you see a long term future for it?<BR><BR>I ask this in the light of the iPad and Apples move away from flash and the emergence of html 5 and javascript's ever increasing capacity. I've looked at the OpenLaszlo project <<A href="http://www.openlaszlo.org/">http://www.openlaszlo.org/</A>> where applications are complied in either flash or dhtml and this seems like a smart approach, could xerte move in this direction?<BR><BR>Sorry that was two questions : )<BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR>Mark<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Xerte mailing list<BR>Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><A href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>