[Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera

Fri Jun 22 12:58:38 BST 2012

Thanks Pat.  I did go to add in the alert before the end of the html you suggested but couldn't find the file to put it in.

-----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: 22 June 2012 12:10
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera

I've not got broadband at home yet - once I do I'll see if I can work
out why - half tempted to believe it is case sensitive (onMouseDown
maybe?)

It can't be a huge thing to fix.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Let's not get too worked up about it, Opera users are a very small percentage, and I think they are used to having to use different browsers for different things,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 22 June 2012 10:52
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>
> It would be a bigger problem if LO's didn't play in Opera but they do.
>
> I think Julian has responded previously that ideally the workspace and
> authoring etc should work in Opera as well as the other common browsers but
> as you say it doesn't crop up as an issue very often.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
> Sent: 22 June 2012 10:40
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>
> Just looking at this now.
>
> It doesn't get into this function (single_click) at all - although you can
> see the divs do have an onmousedown in them calling the function.
>
> Is this just something that isn't going to work in Opera.  I don't suppose
> it's a huge problem, I don't remember anyone ever contacting the list about
> it so is anyone even using Opera?  I imagine it was the first and last time
> I would ever have tried to use it in there anyway.
>
> -----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: 20 June 2012 10:30
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>
> Then something odd must be happening
>
> in website_code/scripts/screen_display.js
>
> around line 798
>
> if(div_name != null && div_name.highlight==false)
>
> if the "should I select" JS code. I would guess maybe div_name isn't being
> set properly in opera.
>
> Just stick an alert before the if
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> No
>>
>> -----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: 20 June 2012 09:44
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>>
>> it's whitespace that usually kills it (IE sees whitespace as nothing,
>> FF and Chrome see it as a text node)
>>
>> Any JS Errors?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>> One big block
>>>
>>> -----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: 20 June 2012 09:37
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>>>
>>> if in opera you do a view source on the code - in the workspace area
>>> is the HTML one big block, or is the html pretty formatted (tabs, new
>>> lines et al)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>>> No they don't
>>>>
>>>> -----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: 20 June 2012 09:25
>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Using Toolits in Opera
>>>>
>>>> i think (if this counts as a distinction)
>>>>
>>>> they might be "selected" - just not "highlighted"
>>>>
>>>> I.E do the buttons enable?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Pat Lockley
>>>> <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> it hasn't worked in opera for years (since I was at Nottingham).
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the reason is because when you click on a project it needs
>>>>> to reference the parent of the item, and opera's take on parentNode
>>>>> isn't the same as the others.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would assume it throws a JS error?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>>>>> I just tried to log in to Toolkits using Opera and have found that
>>>>>> you can't select any of the projects/folders from the Workspace.
>>>>>> I can select the Workspace folder but nothing inside it so it's
>>>>>> pretty much unusable.  Has anyone else come across this?  Any idea
> why?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't usually use Opera but had it open already because of
>>>>>> testing some of the HTML5 stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fay
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