[samigo-team] Replacing Java applet with HTML5/Flash

[Sam Ottenhoff]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Wow Sam, thanks for doing this! Seems like someone makes an announcement
> about Java security every week. Some comments
>
> 1) Maybe you are saying that playback doesn't work and that's a separate
> fix? Otherwise, maybe something is wrong with my quicktime installation. I
> went in as a student but I was not sure if it worked or not: I was not able
> to listen to what I had recorded and when I click to download it generated
> an error when I clicked the link. As an instructor, I can see something
> submitted but I have a greyed out Q icon, even though I enabled Quicktime
> Version: 7.6.6 (I can download the .au file this time, but I get a note
> from QT that says audio_3_1.au cannot be opened).
>

It's most likely related to the mime type of the audio file (maybe
audio/basic versus audio/wav), but as mentioned in a separate email thread
this morning, I recommend replacing the outdated Quicktime embeds with
HTML5 embeds where possible (IE is the only browser that doesn't have HTML5
WAV support).



> 2) the progress bar was still going while it said the "Upload is complete.
> Closing this window." Maybe it should say "Uploading recording. Window will
> close when complete."
>

Okay, I changed the text.



>
> 3) it's unclear what will happen when I click stop or post. Sometimes I
> click stop and it uploads (the second time), other times I have to
> explicitly click "post recording." I think it should only upload when you
> click post recording.
>


What if the instructor only wants the student to have one opportunity to
record?  Shouldn't the student be denied the opportunity to try and reload
or close the recorder to get a fresh chance?




>
> 4) finally my secret hope was that this might work from iOS devices since
> it works with HTML5, but the recording button doesn't really work. Also, it
> opens a second browser window, which might get complicated, since it will
> do this for every new question.
>


Yes, I too was hoping that Apple would be as aggressively innovative in
this space as they were in aggressively killing Flash.  But it appears
Google is doing the innovation in this space for now.  Hopefully, Apple
will catch up soon.



>
> When this gets further along, I will forward this to Ken Romeo, who works
> with the language instructors here and is intimately familiar with their
> needs for this app.
>


Okay, feel free to pass on.  I can't promise I'm going to develop to the
specifications of your constituents, but I'm happy to take a look at
reasonable requests.

--Sam
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