[Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

Mon Nov 19 12:48:32 GMT 2012

Can you remember what it does? Perhaps someone else knows?

Part of the problem is that the RSS tab already scrolls vertically because
there are quite a lot of instructions. I wonder whether a short-term
solution is just to add an instruction e.g. 

The main feed is at http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php. This includes
all content marked for inclusion from the site's users. Note: to share the
html5 links rather than Flash links use
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/rss.php?html5 instead or simply append
&html5 to the link below.

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 12:28
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

I can't remember where the JS is called.....

I think the RSS tab should display a list of feeds that project is in

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:

responses below...

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 12:13

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: rss containing html5 links

I can't remember if there is a JS file, I tried to remember the other day
but couldn't recall. It has been 2 years after all.

:-) well it seems to be working without any js changes and I guess in any
case this is just in addition to what's already there at the moment rather
than changes to core functionality so shouldn't break anything.

The RSS tab is about putting things into a feed, whereas the properties
window is about that LO? So you could argue perhaps the RSS tab should have
a "this LO is in the following feeds" list?

Yes probably but at the moment all I've looked to do is to enable the html5
rss links to work rather than decide where to display those links. However I
think most XOT users only see the rss links via LO properties and the RSS
tab as that's the properties panel they open most. It's only those who
import projects that ever view the workspace properties panel and even then
I'm not sure they ever visit the my feeds tab.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:

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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