[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer

[Julian Tenney]

i have my own tale of woe, less said about that the better,
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross [Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 30 March 2012 16:25
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 viewer

Oops, did I leave those in (blushing)

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 30 March 2012 16:24
To: For Xerte technical developers
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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