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

[Julian Tenney]

In the newWindow page there is an optional 'html' property. If you add that property, you can write HTML for the webpage that will open, so put your embed code in there, and it will be passed to the new window to become the newWindow's source.

Then you can embed whatever you want, and there's no need to move the media from its home.

You might need an updated newWindow model from the svn.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 16 August 2011 17:59
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

<a href="url" target="_blank">link text</a> is the only option short
of media converting

depends on what else you'd want to do, the xerte code lives inside a
div, so you could write a popup div block of code. Inside that DIV is
an iframe. Use javascript to set that iframe SRC and show the div.

That might be a feature worth coding.....

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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