[Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
Tom Reijnders
reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Sep 19 15:27:41 BST 2013
End of september to finish functionality and start testing or finish
functionality say this weekend, and start testing with the aim to relase
end of september?
Op 19-9-2013 15:44, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> OK.
>
> Shall we aim for end of September?
>
> How shall we do testing?
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom
> Reijnders
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 14:42
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> Looks nice!
>
> I also don't see any reason why not to have the logos, especially
> since they are configurable if you want!
>
> Theming would be nice, although that theming for the LO's has a higher
> priority. And like John says, Theming is likely to improve the quality
> of the code.
>
> Tom
>
> Op 19-9-2013 15:29, Smith, John schreef:
>
> I don't see any reason not to have UoN logos there... their IPR
> after all and if it's relatively easy to change then...
>
> I agree theming would be good... I think we should aim for a very
> clean file and try to remove all inline styles and inline
> javascript where possible. Then it will be a case of just changing
> css. This would allow for example similar invert and
> black-on-yellow modes to address Alistairs requirements without
> too much effort...
>
> The main xenith engine file isn't quite as lean as it could be but
> at least the layout parts are pretty clean of code/style -- I
> still have a few things to do in there then I'm done with that
> file for a while -- happier now that it plays in IE6-10 quite well
> now (although there is still that compatibility mode issue)...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:18 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> No it was the HTML5 media viewer, a few other things. I've got
> some potential deigns to show you guys actually, see attached. I'm
> not 100% happy with any of them just yet, but I think the elements
> / colours are there.
>
> Maybe we should do this as a theming thing, then people can choose?
>
> I also wonder (quietly) whether we should have the UoN logos in
> there or not.
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 14:14
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> Yes, what has Nikodem been working on? The workspace redesign?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:10 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> That all sounds good, thanks. Let's let it roll a couple of week s
> then. The reason for updating our code here is so Nikodem's
> changes can go out, and it will just be easier to drop the whole
> file set over the top than check whether anything has changed in
> dependent files (though I don't think it has).
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 14:08
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> Alistair is looking at it, few minor tweaks to get it ready for
> consumption... has a lot of model specific stuff (mainly class and
> id names used by specific models for colour changing purposes) in
> there though which I don't really want as it makes maintenance a
> nightmare...
>
> What I have started though, that should help a lot with that is
> I've modularized xenith core and about 10 or so of the page models
> so that they can load at any time and they then augment
> objects/arrays in xenith as required by them -- they are fully
> encapsulated in a closure so don't pollute global and this is the
> obvious place to put class/id names that are required for colour
> changer...
>
> That will be for v2.2+ though -- can't get the other models done
> before xmas I doubt as there are a few changes to the process... I
> think you'll like it though. I've managed to split xenith itself
> down into modules, grouping things like glossary, etc so that they
> everything to do with that is in the one file and it has it's own
> private and public vars...
>
> For Crockford fans I've used 3 different, module patterns to
> achieve different augmentations to the new XENITH object... will
> write up in the wiki when I get them done...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:43 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> How long do you need?
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 19 September 2013 09:38
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> The colourswitcher button should go in... it's nearly ready...
>
> There have been enough fixes I think to warrant a new release, if
> only to spur people to patch things like the previous youtube
> issue and the stripslashes problem with moodle integration...
>
> But... there are a few things that don't seem to be working
> properly at present. Categories and Licences in management being
> the ones that immediately spring to mind... not much though...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *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] *On Behalf Of
> *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:18 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Toolkits 2.1
>
> We'd quite like to update our install to the latest files, so I
> thought maybe we should do a 2.1 and put all the more recent
> changes out there. It's been six months since the last build was made.
>
> Do you see any problems with this?
>
> Anyone got anything that would be good to include?
>
> Might be a good github trial as well...
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