[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 thinking

[Pat Lockley]

Yep, I'd say that or be all valley and use an etherpad

I think my editor almost certainly won't use XML - one or two might
(have three ideas), but all move away from Flash on the edit and the
play side.



On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> They sound like good ideas. I have always seen toolkits as a highly versatile xml editor, the runtime largely independent of that, although of course we have used Xerte to date. We ought to start a list somewhere of these ideas, maybe a google doc  again?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 04 July 2012 11:45
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] 1.9 thinking
>
> Hello,
>
> Given 1.8 seems "done", I have some purely PHP / MySQL ideas for 1.9
>
> 1) Allow each module to define it's own capabilities, so for example :-
> I have some PHP that can make quite nice learning objects
> I'd like to build a new module to support this (explicitly nothing Xerte)
> But it won't export very well, so I want no export options
>
> So, I would suggest abstracting the export function away from website
> code and placing it within the module (a bit like
> module/xerte/play.php)
>
> This way if a module doesn't support export, there is no option for it.
>
> 2) Also allow the module itself to define it's name and it's
> desription (so they don't need to be stored in the database) thus
> reducing the templatedetails table to a more basic structure.
>
> These two changes offer one big advantage - it turns the basic XOT
> structure / system into a generic LO creation management system (which
> means developers can do more with it).
>
> My thinking is I have some code which would be useful - but it doesn't
> have a "wizard" interface, and I don't really need to write a new XOT
> / moodle plugin, when I can just modify XOT to do it.
>
> Only issue is that the X in XOT starts to feel a bit weird....
>
> If we are modifying the database, then I can see a case for also
>
> 1) Restructure / replace the sitedetails table with a more logical structure
>
> Thoughts
>
> Pat
>
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