[Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

[Matt Lingard]

Thanks Pat. That's good to know.

In this case, we were hoping to keep the media on it's existing server
rather than having to copy it to our xerte server. Not possible I'm
guessing.
Matt

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> You can use the media and quota tab in properties to upload any file,
> it'll then give you the HTML <a> tag for that file. Still a
> target="_blank" in there and it should open in a new window anyways.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > From browsing back through various messages I'm pretty certain the answer
> is
> > "no", but just wanted to be 100% certain that I'm understanding Xerte (as
> a
> > newbie).
> >
> > I want to be able to embed some video in a template created with the
> online
> > toolkit.  The code I've been supplied with is an <embed> and the files
> are
> > mp4. Am I correct that this is a non starter? And is this because Xerte
> is
> > Flash rather than HTML?
> >
> > And finally, I've seen a few 'new window' solutions... is this a feature
> of
> > the desktop version rather than the online toolkit?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt
> >
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