[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5

Thu Mar 28 15:04:43 GMT 2013

Op 28-3-2013 15:37, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Brilliant.
>
> 1.Exporting seems to cause people a lot of problems, but I guess they 
> do seem to use it (rightly or wrongly). I'd prefer to have options to 
> export the various types of zip for either html5 or flash, I think. I 
> have no idea how hard this is to do? I'd love to drop this 
> functionality because it just seems to cause a lot of unnecessary 
> problems, I'm not sure people really need to export content as much as 
> they do -- but there are some valid reasons to do it, so I suppose 
> we're stuck with it. Tom adapted the original exporting code, would 
> this be something that is easy for Tom to look at? Or reassure me that 
> I can adapt your code easily to use different paths / folders etc?
>
I'll look into this. I need to anyways, because of SCORM.

> 2.The play_html5_1234 is a good idea, yes, for consistency. On 
> installs where this works, does the play_html5.php?template_id=work as 
> well?
>
yes the other URL will work as well.
>
> 3.Yes, everything should default to the html5 output. Peer review 
> needs a new URL as well. CTRL-Click can launch the flash version 
> instead from the wizard. I'm not sure we need browser detection: 
> people should use the URL they built it for; however, we should 
> probably put something in place for older browsers to say 'upgrade 
> your browser' or similar? I'm guessing the paths are easy to amend in 
> the php?
>
> What else do we need to look at before we can release this? This 
> morning we tentatively agreed to have it all ready for *FRIDAY 26^th 
> APRIL. *Do we need a list of open issues that need resolving before 
> the release? I'm thinking of the Firefox security thing in particular, 
> though it sounds like you're getting close John? Also the thing with 
> the buttons staying greyed out that appeared recently? If Tom's SCORM 
> work isn't ready by then, I'm not sure it's a big problem?
>
No, I don't think SCORM is a show stopper (but I'll do my utmost!)

> I've made a titanpad here for a list of things to do: 
> http://titanpad.com/xottwopointoh. I want to concentrate on finishing 
> existing work, rather than starting anything new just now, but please 
> add any bugs to it as well, and we'll fix as many as we can.
>
> An aside, is it worth starting to think about when / where we do 
> another AGM? If we do it outside of teaching time, we can do it in 
> rooms here at no cost. Maybe sometime in July?
>
> I'm off next week, but will have some time after that to help out with 
> getting this finished,
>
> Julian
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 27 March 2013 17:17
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] HTML5
>
> Hello all
>
> As you should know the HTML5 work is nearly complete and there are 
> only a couple of page types for me to complete before we can release a 
> new version of Toolkits with the HTML5 interface as the default view.  
> I have a few things that I could do with some help on before the 
> release so if anyone can give me a hand with them or just give your 
> opinions it would be much appreciated...
>
> 1.Exporting HTML projects:
> The files that would need to be in the zip would be more or less the 
> same as for the Flash version but using the common_html5 and 
> models_html5 folders instead of common/models.
>
> 2.Abbreviated link:
> Possibly something Ron can help with as I've noticed it's working on 
> his install.  Can abbreviated links be made to work e.g. 
> www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_html5_560 
> <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_html5_560> rather than 
> using the full url?
> (Apologies Pat, I think you partly answered this for me previously but 
> I can't find it)
>
> 3.Play / Preview links:
>
> a.Links in project properties, preview button in workspace and preview 
> in wizard need to be updated to go to the HTML5 version.
>
> b.In the wizard should Ctrl-Click bring up the Flash version when 
> clicking normally is changed to HTML5?
>
> c.Do you think there needs to be some browser detection that decides 
> which version people see?  The problem I can see with this is that if 
> we start adding new features or pages to the HTML5 version then by 
> sending them to the Flash version instead they may miss out on some 
> content.  Not many of the page types in the HTML5 version actually use 
> HTML5 tags if that makes sense -- probably just the handful where the 
> canvas tag is used (textDrawing, charts etc.) so there might not be 
> many instances where there will be problems if you're on an older 
> browser anyway.
>
> 4.Page models:
>
> a.John -- is the flickr page finished?
>
> b.Johnathan -- I've emailed you off list about a few queries I've got 
> with the connector pages, I hope this is ok -- I didn't want to bother 
> everyone else with them
>
> c.SCORM -- this isn't working at the moment but I can't quite remember 
> what's missing.  I'll email with more details of what help I might 
> need when I've looked back at it
>
> Thanks
>
> Fay
>
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