Many thanks again(!) Pat. Much appreciated.<br><br>The DIV code is beyond me but I'll consult with a colleague.<br>Regards,<br>Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Pat Lockley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.lockley@googlemail.com">patrick.lockley@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="url" target="_blank">link text</a> is the only option short<br>
of media converting<br>
<br>
depends on what else you'd want to do, the xerte code lives inside a<br>
div, so you could write a popup div block of code. Inside that DIV is<br>
an iframe. Use javascript to set that iframe SRC and show the div.<br>
<br>
That might be a feature worth coding.....<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matt Lingard <<a href="mailto:mattlingard@gmail.com">mattlingard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Pat. That's good to know.<br>
><br>
> In this case, we were hoping to keep the media on it's existing server<br>
> rather than having to copy it to our xerte server. Not possible I'm<br>
> guessing.<br>
> Matt<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Pat Lockley<br>
> <<a href="mailto:patrick.lockley@googlemail.com">patrick.lockley@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> You can use the media and quota tab in properties to upload any file,<br>
>> it'll then give you the HTML <a> tag for that file. Still a<br>
>> target="_blank" in there and it should open in a new window anyways.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Matt Lingard <<a href="mailto:mattlingard@gmail.com">mattlingard@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>> > Hi everyone,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > From browsing back through various messages I'm pretty certain the<br>
>> > answer is<br>
>> > "no", but just wanted to be 100% certain that I'm understanding Xerte<br>
>> > (as a<br>
>> > newbie).<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I want to be able to embed some video in a template created with the<br>
>> > online<br>
>> > toolkit. The code I've been supplied with is an <embed> and the files<br>
>> > are<br>
>> > mp4. Am I correct that this is a non starter? And is this because Xerte<br>
>> > is<br>
>> > Flash rather than HTML?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > And finally, I've seen a few 'new window' solutions... is this a feature<br>
>> > of<br>
>> > the desktop version rather than the online toolkit?<br>
>> ><br>
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