[Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

[Fay Cross]

The changes I need to make aren't major things - not bugs really, just something that doesn't make much sense. Inge noticed that although we give an optional property for video w/h there's no property for media. You can upload a flv (but not mp4) to the Image optional property and it will play. I have no idea why I've made it is like this or how I haven't noticed before! I'm tempted to just deprecate the video w/h property on all the navigators for now as unless people have realised you have to upload videos to the image field then it's not widely used and it won't stop any existing projects working anyway.

I'll look at making a new combined navigator page too (that properly allows videos on subpages) but won't deprecate the old ones until we're happy with it.

Yes, the tabbed navigator + would need to stay separate. The column page could possibly be combined with them too as it uses the same nested pages but I think this feels different somehow and is useful to keep separate.


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 12 June 2015 15:10
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

I can see the benefits of this and we have a similar feature in the site template where most of the navigators are combined. But I can imagine it will be difficult to ensure backwards compatibility apart from deprecation for new projects. In this case that would seem like a bit of a departure e.g. the other deprecated page are no longer needed or supported whereas the navigators are very much still useful and an important feature. Also would the tabbed navigator plus be a separate case and still left on it's own?

I'd suggest the following:

Fix the essential issues in the current navigators but perhaps not those not essential if not easy.
Add a new combined navigator when time permits and we can test in a develop version first and then until people are familiar with that leave the existing navigators without deprecating them.
At some future point deprecate the older separate navigators.

HTH
Ron

BTW Would be good to add a carousel navigator to the mix at some point like we have in the site template.

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 Tom Reijnders
Sent: 12 June 2015 14:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

The problem is, that we need to deprecate the old pages. That's no problem in it self. But that would mean that we probably should fix the problems anyway. I would do it anyway, because it will simplify future maintenance.

Tom
Fay Cross schreef op 12-6-2015 om 15:17:
I've got to make some changes to a lot of the navigator pages to fix some problems that Inge found and it's got me thinking about something I think Ron has mentioned before.

Button, tabbed, slideshow and accordion navigators are all identical in the information that the author enters - the only difference is the way you move between sub-pages in the LO. Would it be useful to replace these pages with one new navigator page where you could select which of these appearances you wanted it to have? Or do you think this would be confusing?

It would be easy to do (and then I'd only have to do the changes to fix the bugs once!) What do you think?

Fay





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