[Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Sep 19 16:02:18 BST 2013


Both... :-)
Op 19-9-2013 16:40, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> What works for you?
>
> *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 15:28
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits 2.1
>
> 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
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>     [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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