[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

Tue Oct 30 19:44:13 GMT 2012

Hi Fay,

That makes sense now. I've attached the delicious.html and the youtuberss.html models for now while I work on the textDrawing.html and youtube.html ones, I hope they get your approval, given the quality of the rest of your code...

A caveat is that the delicious.html one doesn't actually work but that's because the JSON API tag feed appears to be broken. According to their dev pages here (http://delicious.com/developers#title1), this url should return a JSONP object of the first 10 search results for 'cuillin', wrapped in test():

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/tag/cuillin?callback=test&count=10

Now it was working yesterday but just died today and now only returns: test([]) for any tag... strange. Have tried contacting them but still no reply. Commit it anyway and when it starts working again I'll fix any errors that crop up. I've still not checked out any of the other options although i've included an equivalent if else statement to that in the equivalent rlm. Will test these also when I get access to a more comprehensive data.xml file...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross [Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 30 October 2012 09:48
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

You're right, the Html5 stuff really needs to be in the other svn. I think I was just reluctant to do this before as I didn't want a new Toolkits zip to be made which included it until there was a way to properly access the html5 versions of projects.

Thanks for looking at some of the outstanding pages that need doing, that's really useful, could you send them to me please if you can't commit them.
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John [J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk]
Sent: 29 October 2012 16:49
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

Hi,

I know I'm new here but personally I think that JSON export would at least be as useful if not more useful as XML, especially when working in a JavaScript environment like the HTML5 engine. (see next part)

Incidentally, not sure if I only have commit access to XOT since XERTE desktop is being treated as almost dead in the water but the Xenith code i'm working on is part of the XERTE trunk, not XOT. My interest is just now is getting the HTML5 engine mature enough to use in anger. Over the weekend i've done the following HTML5 engine models:

     delicious (95% ready) - had to use JSONP request because of same origin policy
     youtuberss (95% ready) - have use new JSONC request
     textDrawing (<50%) - don't have a sufficient test file for this model and the XOT Jisc site won't save the image or let me add pictures just now... need to get XOT installed locally or use usb version temporarily (anyone help out with a test XML stub for this model??) Oh and the screenshot shows the freehand done using pixel <divs> for non canvas compatibility
     youtube (~80% ready) - just a guess as only a few sizing issues

Attached some screenshots for those who want to see.

I'ml definitely interested in working on the connector pages soon though and tying this altogether as we want a "mobile" compatible (read iPad) RLO repository of some fashion by the end of the academic year.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
Sent: 29 October 2012 13:25
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

Also, would JSON export be more useful / as useful as XML export?

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Pat Lockley
<patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> WordPress has a theme supports function, so I am thinking of having a
> list to indicate the tabs per template, or something similar
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>> 1, 2 & 3
>> Personally I don't think it's a necessity that the same tabs exist for all
>> templates but I suspect it's easier to just display a message like 'This
>> property is not relevant to this template' than it is to change the code to
>> dynamically change tabs based on the template in use.
>>
>> 4
>> Increase the properties window size and display 'This property is not
>> relevant to this template' for Xerte templates?
>>
>> Just my quick thoughts...
>> Ron
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 29 October 2012 12:48
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] 1.9 properties
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On the properties panel there are several options which are sort of xerte
>> specific - XML and media and quota for example.
>>
>> Some of the new templates aren't XML, so XML makes no sense - and the media
>> and quota code is very xerte specific.
>>
>> Would people think
>>
>> 1) all off these options should exist for all templates?
>> 2) should tabs exist even if the functionality doesn't?
>> 3) what sort of message should it say
>> 4) what if I have scope for an extra tab?
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