[Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

[Julian Tenney]

I think if you make the window resizable, you get (empty?) scrollbars at the side of the window, which look ugly; if it's not resizable you get a clean stage in the window. You can still use the full screen toggle of course, or we can expose the property to the form - but existing content won't have it.

Unsure about the thumbnails, I'll have a look, there's some jiggery pokery going on with rootIcon.hotTextClicked to get the ID to launch which I'm not sure I can do off the images.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 01 May 2012 13:13
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

Have uploaded. P60 of http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=22

We've still got that rogue scrollbar to the left of the thumbnails which also affects the scrollbar for the thumbs.

Can the thumbnails be active links as well as the text?

In my IE8 the pop-up still isn't resizable but could just be specific to my laptop so would be good if others could test and feed back? Will test on IE9 too.

HTH
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 May 2012 13:02
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

Just committed the feed page, it works the same way. I also changed the params in openWindow to allow the window to be resizable, and to get the focus when it's made, so you don't lose it. That's in preview_xerte_top (which is in modules/xerte by the way as I can never find it...)


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 01 May 2012 12:39
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

It's in place now - page 61 and 62 of http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=22

If you go through in linear order Page 61 comes up with an undefined but page 62 seems to work fine - not sure what the difference is but then if you go back to page 61 it pops up the video from page 62.

Will the wizard have options to set pop-up window features such as resizable? In IE 8 the pop up isn't resizable but I think it should be or perhaps better still have control over than in the wizard. In Firefox and Safari I can resize the pop-up.

Presumably this is grabbing the image automatically which is great? I don't think it's as nice as the current YouTube page but if that's going then I guess we have no choice. At least it means features such as captions and view full screen are available.

How will the feed page work?

HTH
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 May 2012 12:14
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

Sorry, I commited it to xerte. Just replace the one youtube.rlm file. Its in the XOT svn now as well.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 01 May 2012 11:41
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New Youtube page

Hi Julian
did you commit to the XOT svn or just Xerte? Not showing up in the XOT svn that I've been using for the test install. Not sure if I can just grab the two files from the Xerte svn and just replace the files on the test install?
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 May 2012 11:29
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] New Youtube page

I just committed a new version of the youtube page: it uses newWindow to launch the video. I tried doing the embed approach, but it's gribbly: the movie hovers above the popup menus along the bottom, and moving to a new page left the screen black for a few seconds. So this way pops up a new window, but I think it's the best we can do until we get the HTML5 stuff finished.

If you could pop it in the demo please Ron, I'll do the RSS one as well, but I'll wait for any comments first.


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