[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

Mon Jul 7 14:54:20 BST 2014

Hi,

It's one of those situations where we can't support every browser on every legacy platform, albeit that the older iPads are only a few years old now... We've had to do the same with limited support for <IE9 since there is only so much time resource that each of us can dedicate to the project.

It's unfortunate but even a lot of the bigger JS libraries/frameworks are moving away from legacy browser support which takes a massive time to develop for and test and also greatly bloats the code and resulting download times.

I'm a little curious as to why the video seems to load but is collapsed. We use mediaelement.js in Xerte to play the videos and it could be that it is they who do not support the Safari version on older iPads...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Douglas Brown [dbrown61 at une.edu.au]
Sent: 07 July 2014 02:12
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

John,

I ran the

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711

In Google Chrome and Firefox and it didn¹t happen. The culprit was Safari.

What¹s unfortunate is that Safari tends to be the only browser one can run
with the earlier versions of iPads. But since it seems to be Safari that
is causing the issue, I suppose there¹s nothing the good people running
Xerte can do to overcome it :/

Cheers,

Douglas Brown

Online Learning Designer
Learning Innovations Hub

Parramatta Future Campus
Level 2, 232 Church Street
Parramatta NSW 2150 Australia

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On 7/07/2014 10:11 am, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi Douglas
>
>That is not normal behaviour so i'm curious as to where you are loading
>that learning object from. Is Xerte running locally on your Mac or are
>you loading it from a server?
>
>Also, which browser are you using? I use Xerte on a Mac and have never
>seen that behaviour before so would advise you ti check the developer
>console for errors or missing (404) files.
>
>Regards
>
>John Smith
>Learning Technologist
>School of Health and Life Sciences
>
>Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
>Douglas Brown <dbrown61 at une.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
>While I have been impressed with Xerte¹s functionalities, I find this one
>small aspect a bit distractingŠ see the Screen Capture of what I see.
>
>[cid:4602426C-B965-4360-8221-186F3CEB44F8]
>
>I just imagine the Learner feeling a bit anxious about the fact that once
>the Video closes you can¹t simply click and drag it open. And there is
>whole pile of white space where the Video could sit.
>
>I¹m running a Mac.
>
>Something to fix in the next version, eh?
>
>Cheers,
>[cid:FEBFE5A2-C9CE-4291-8271-18390C45B296]
>
>Douglas Brown
>Online Learning Designer
>Learning Innovations Hub
>
>Parramatta Future Campus
>Level 2, 232 Church Street
>Parramatta NSW 2150 Australia
>
>Phone  0477 740 230
>
>www.une.edu.au<http://www.une.edu.au/>
>
>CRICOS Provider Code 00003G
>[cid:9377AD25-F3FB-4131-BAC9-EA2D7791196E]
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>From: Julian Tenney
><Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Reply-To: Xerte discussion list
><xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Date: Friday, 4 July 2014 6:48 pm
>To: "Xerte discussion list
>(xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)"
><xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>Subject: [Xerte] Creating Animation
>
>I¹m just wondering what approaches people use for this sort of thing: we
>have a lecturer who wants to create animation simply. He¹s currently
>using powerpoint to create this sort of thing:
>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711
>
>I think the results are really good, and it¹s taken some time to get
>right. I¹m interested in optimising the approach a bit, to make it fast
>and efficient: maybe this is the best way of doing it, maybe there are
>others?
>
>What I¹m interested in is what approaches / tools do people use for this
>sort of thing? It doesn¹t have to be high end output: it could be a
>mixture of screen capture, whilst dragging things around and narrating
>the process for example. We¹re not looking to turn staff into Flash
>developers, it¹s more about simple approaches that are easy and quick to
>do.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Julian
>
>
>
>
>
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