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

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 29 16:24:29 BST 2011


On 29/08/2011 16:19, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
> Been away so not sure I'm second but...
>
> I like the look of this and it seems to work ok (ish) in Firefox and 
> Safari (see below) but in IE 8 on my laptop (Win 7) the embed window 
>  overlaps the stage see screenshot at 
> http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/img/iYG.png
>
> Also there is obviously a problem when the screen size option is 
> changed but I guess that's tricky to resolve.
>
> As Alistair has mentioned keyboard access seems to vary...
>
> In IE 8 I can tab around the xerte interface and then into the web 
> page content but once navigating the embedded content there doesn't 
> seem to be a quick way back to the interface again without mouse click 
> or using shift + tab to reverse previous tabs. I wonder if there could 
> be a common key for reverting back to the interface navigation?
>
> In Firefox I can't seem to tab into the embedded content until first 
> mouse clicking on that content and then I can't tab back to the 
> interface. Again maybe there's a key or combination I'm not aware of?
>
> More worryingly in Safari 5.1 I can't access any xerte page via 
> keyboard access. I can't believe that's always been the case so maybe 
> a change in a recent upgrade or something peculiar on my laptop?
>
> On all the browsers when viewing the embed page example and then 
> clicking the TOC icon the TOC panel is appearing below the embedded 
> content and therefore can't be seen/accessed.
>

the IE problem looks like Xerte has had its window sized changed?

The code merely displays an iframe at a set size, nothing more.

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