[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer

Fri Mar 30 16:29:17 BST 2012

My favourite was finding:
<--! users are evil -->
on line 6578 of some monster .asp page

> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:24:16 +0100
> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer
> 
> So you went with Jquery then?
> 
> Also, liking the comments, brings back happy memories of finding things like
> 
> // no idea how this works
> 
> in code comments
> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
> > What Language are you writing this in? And are you going to try to interpret
> > existing LO's?
> >
> > Looks good!
> >
> > Op 30-3-2012 17:11, Julian Tenney schreef:
> >
> > Great!
> >
> >
> >
> > We want to use this as a way of letting the development take place in full
> > view, so we can surface issues and questions as they arise, and debate the
> > various things we need to debate here. It will greatly aid the project if
> > you can help by chipping in thoughts and observations as we go along –
> > accessibility is an area to be concerned with, and things will be quite
> > different in HTML than in Flash, for obvious reasons, and we need to think
> > about the framework for developers to extend the system with their own
> > templates: so if you have any thought s about how this should work from a
> > developers point of view please pipe up.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is a brilliant start! Have a great weekend,
> >
> >
> >
> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
> > Sent: 30 March 2012 16:03
> > To: For Xerte technical developers
> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] HTML5 viewer
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello
> >
> >
> >
> > This week the project to make a HTML5 viewer for Toolkits started.  You can
> > view an work in progress example of it here
> > http://ltdev.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/prototypeInterface.htm (best to view
> > in Firefox at the moment - the css hasn’t been sorted properly yet)
> >
> >
> >
> > At the moment it’s obviously very rough and looks terrible!  I’ve added all
> > the optional properties to the LO so I can make sure everything that works
> > in the Flash version works here too (background image, icon, menu page, menu
> > image etc.).  The aim is to get the main interface finalised before we start
> > work on any of the page models so although it is getting info from an xml
> > file to load in the correct page type and give it a title, everything else
> > on each page is currently fixed.  The page models are separate html files
> > that are loaded in to the main interface html.
> >
> >
> >
> > A few things have come up as I’ve been working on this that you might have
> > opinions on:
> >
> >
> >
> > We were thinking of getting rid of a lot of the options at the bottom of the
> > Flash version (Font / Text Size etc.) and have the browser setting deal with
> > this.  What do you think about the size of it though – fix it at 800 x 600
> > or have it automatically resize?  Do you think we will still need an option
> > to swap views?
> >
> >
> >
> > In this version there’s a main style sheet and you can also add styles to
> > each page model html file if there’s any stuff specific to that model.  This
> > seems to work ok but I was wondering what would happen if you uploaded a
> > custom style sheet for the LO – these override the main one but not the
> > model specific styles.  For those who have made custom interfaces for
> > projects in the past is this likely to be a problem?  I would have thought
> > the styles in the models will be more general layout things.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Fay
> >
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