[Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?

[Pat Lockley]

hta is a IE thing for IE security

Does the HTM cause a problem in chrome and FF

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Nicki Keating
<Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> No luck at all on Firefox or Chrome (only IE 8+ seems to like the HTA extension) so perhaps not the right fix after all (it's for running in a prison, hence restricted internet access, plus I don't know how up to date their browsers are).
>
> There's no option to select 'local export' btw, I just went to Export in the Project Properties and clicked Zip Export, and it spits out a zip file.
>
> Nicki
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 08 March 2012 12:03
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>
> try it on a different browser just to be sure it's not cached and stuff
>
> Did you select "local export" in XOT when you exported - I can make
> the export produce a HTA if better? / Alternative?
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Nicki Keating
> <Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks Pat, that certainly seems to have done the trick (at least, on the one PC I've just tried it on!).  I renamed the index.htm file that _was_ produced automatically when you export the ZIP file, to index.hta and all is well again.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Nicki
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 08 March 2012 11:51
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>>
>> i think it needs to be within a .hta on a DVD doesn't it? (which
>> translates as a security setting)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> First thing I would suspect is a security setting.
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:24:09 +0000
>>> Subject: [Xerte] XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> Has anyone else tried to export an XOT LO (for distribution on a DVD), and
>>> then found that the weblinks in a page no longer work?
>>>
>>> The HTML code is fine (it works when I run XOT via the web), and when you
>>> right-click on a link, on the DVD version, you can even copy the URL and
>>> paste it into a new tab, BUT nothing happens when you click a link directly.
>>>
>>> Or does this work OK for others that have exported it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>>
>>> Nicki
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