[Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

[Ron Mitchell]

Well yes there are also rss links in workspace properties but for now I was
concentrating on the rss tab of LO properties e.g. when an author selects an
LO, clicks properties and visits the rss tab.

 

url_library is one of the files I updated but I haven't updated an .js files
- what js files need to be updated and why? Can you help with that Pat?

 

I've only made changes to my local .htaccess so far (attached as a txt file)
which is why I posed question 2.

 

Ron

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 19 November 2012 11:58
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

 

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
<http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&html5>
&html5

 

and also:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell
<http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=
tests> &folder_name=tests

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell
<http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?username=Ron_Mitchell&folder_name=
tests&html5> &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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