[Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats

[Julian Tenney]

Time is of the essence for the 1.9 drop because we want to get that done by 30th November, so I like what you're saying, but wonder if it can be done in time...?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 21 November 2012 13:29
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats

Well it depends on what we call "now"

It's a bit roadmappy, but for 1.9 you'd not have html_play.php and play.php, but one play.php which would then switch on the variable set (within the module folder).

You'd have an option somewhere of setting "HTML5" somehow (perhaps a radio box on the editor?) which would then send a request to set this session to be "HTML5" and all previews from then on would be HTML5 mode.

Then you add an extension to the current play rule in htaccess to support a "third" variable, so play_560_html would play the template in HTML5 mode. In the future, play_560_scorm would do the scorm export. As long as play_560_[a-z]+ was handled in the php play code for that module you could do whatever you wanted to do.

In theory you could also have preview_560_html as well

It seems neater to me, but this is me speaking from my cave.

Oooh a flint.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
I like to generalise solutions too. What would the implications be for what we have now?

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<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 21 November 2012 12:43
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Players and alternative formats

Hello all,

This is a message from deep inside modularisation caves so it might not apply to all.

I have a semi working google maps making template, and when it "plays" at present it draws a map using the google maps API.

However, the play could also generate a KML file for people to download, or if the map couldn't load it could provide the data in a different way.

So then I thought this is effectively the HTML5 option (and you might argue the xml download, export, scorm are also "plays").

So I was thinking that rather than using ctrl + click, or extra buttons, you could facilitate an extra request variable consistently across modules.

Ergo you post a "HTML5" option at the URL and you get HTML5 back, you post a "XML" and get xml, or "JSON" and get json.

This way the URL Library doesn't need to change all the time, or the .htaccess, but you also get different plays for each module (and they are all distinct).

Thoughts?

Pat



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