[Xerte-dev] Re: Upload and security

[Ron Mitchell]

The new stuff looks great - I wish I had time to explore further :-(

Although I'm actually using my currently installed version to prepare and deliver moodle admin training resources for use tomorrow.

A few of the delegates yesterday certainly like it!

Ron

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 22 May 2013 11:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upload and security

 

> I'd ask what you want the bootstrap to be - a mini website for Non-techies or a sort of techie play space?

 

Both. I did few things over the last few days: I added some new nodes that are defined as advanced. You only see them if you click the show advanced checkbox – see below, you can toggle the script, canvas and html nodes on or off, they appear below the divider. So non-techs never need to see them. 

 

Rather than try and support a load of different html tags (I did canvas and thought, hang on, where does this end?), I added a specific tag for html, to distinguish it from text elements (second show below), mainly because bootstrap has all those components that you need to define using html, and they are useful if you know what to do with them – and you also need to write javascript to use them or respond to user input).

 

I also added the ability to define styles on the project (root) icon, via an optional property, and as well, you can upload a stylesheet if you’d rather. You already know I added the ability to load third party libraries, and there is a script tag for writing javascript (third show below). 

 

You can see this piece at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_8222). So all in all, it’s very powerful.

 



 



 



 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy 
Sent: 22 May 2013 09:59
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upload and security

 

JavaScript is in the banned list I think

 

I'd ask what you want the bootstrap to be - a mini website for Non-techies or a sort of techie play space?

 

 


On 21 May 2013, at 10:00, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Just reprising a recent conversation about uploading javascript. You guys weren’t keen. I just uploaded a txt file with javascript in it, loaded via a script tag in the bootstrap template and it – of course – executes, but we knew that anyway.

 

Is it the case that only authorised users – those logged in – can get anything through upload.php? Should authorised users be able to upload javascript?

 

Second and slightly related question, playing around with the bootstrap template wizard: I got it adding canvas, and thought about other userful building blocks for developers. You could define them in a text icon <canvas width=”500” height=”350”/> and then script them from a script icon, so are we gaining anything at the expense of confusing users who don’t know what scripts and canvases do? I just though ‘well, where does it end? Divs, styles, etc’ and we can do it all with text anyway. But in looking at some of this stuff, it would really be handy to be able to upload scripts, because writing anything more than trivial in the wizard is going to be gribbly.

 

What do you think?

 

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