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

[Matt Lingard]

Many thanks again(!) Pat.  Much appreciated.

The DIV code is beyond me but I'll consult with a colleague.
Regards,
Matt

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> <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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