[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Sakai 10: options link renders differently in different browsers

[Adrian Fish]

I agree with Adam. It does seem inconsistent having the pencil in some
tools and an options button for others. I know why it has turned out this
way, but it would be good to have it normalised again. I'm guessing this
would be quite a bit of work.

Cheers,
Adrian.


On 16 July 2014 17:22, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>  I don’t mind whether it is inside or outside the frame, I just want it
> to say “Options” and be top left (and not top right) like all the other
> tools’ “Options” buttons.
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> Call me old-fashioned if you will!
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> An alternative approach would be to change the “Options” buttons on all
> the other tools and convert them to a pen and pencil icon and place them at
> the top right, but then the problem would arise as to what to do with all
> the other ‘tool administration’ buttons that have been left behind.
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> Adam
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> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
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> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
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> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
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> *From:* Charles Severance [mailto:csev at umich.edu]
> *Sent:* 16 July 2014 17:17
> *To:* Adam Marshall
> *Cc:* Steve Swinsburg; sakai-user at sakaiproject.org; dev sakai
> *Subject:* Re: [Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Sakai 10: options link
> renders differently in different browsers
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> Adam - the problem is that the "Options" button is *inside* the iframe -
> that was the major flaw in the web.content tool.   It led to frames within
> frames within frames.
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> It needed to be moved outside the tool content - and so while it is
> inconsistent between portlets and old frame-based tools - it is consistent
> across portlets.
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> /Chuck
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> On Jul 16, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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>  Ah – ha. All browsers render as pencil and paper icon on QA server.
> We’re running a slightly older version of Sakai 10. Soz about that.
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> However, I still think it is a really bad design decision. The user will
> not know that some tools are portlets and some not, why should they? Why
> should they care?
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> All that they will know for certain is that “the ‘Options’ link for Web
> Content, Home and IMS LTI tools has vanished”.
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> We either have to change all ‘Options’ and other ‘admin buttons to icons
> and move them to the RHS of the tool, or we touch none of them.  It’s no
> good adopting a random approach.
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> Adam
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