[Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 19 11:58:19 GMT 2012


Are they not in workspace properties?

if you update .htaccess , or htaccess.conf, you also need to update
url_library.php and one of the JS files


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi all****
>
> I've been testing how to have the rss feeds display html5 links instead of
> flash links and have just committed some changes to enable this. ****
>
> ** **
>
> I discovered something I never knew before last week that appending
> ?export to the end of /rss.php changes the feed and links to show the LO's
> set for the export feed. So now with the changes I've committed appending
> ?html5 (or &html5 if there are other parameters like username and/or
> foldername) changes the links to play the html5 version rather than flash
> version. I think the RSS feeds become even more useful when it comes to
> mobile device consumption.****
>
> ** **
>
> I've uploaded these changes to the techdis install so for example:****
>
> ** **
>
> Normal rss feed: http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php****
>
> HTML5 version http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?html5****
>
> ** **
>
> Likewise:****
>
> http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell****
>
> http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&html5****
>
> ** **
>
> and also:****
>
>
> http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=tests
> ****
>
>
> http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=tests&html5
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> This raises a couple of questions:****
>
> ** **
>
> 1. Should these links or at the very least instructions be displayed in
> the RSS properties panel?****
>
> ** **
>
> 2. I've tested with apache set to true and had to obviously add additional
> lines in the .htaccess. I looked at adding these changes to htaccess.conf
> in the setup folder but that doesn't seem to have all the current links
> required even without the additional lines required for html5. Has anyone
> been keeping that up-to-date?****
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers****
>
> Ron****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
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