HCMC Blogs

Had to move back to LibreOffice 3.6 because of a major bug in handling of custom animations in 4.0. My bits are now done, and ECH is finishing the last parts of hers.

All timesheets have gone off today, ahead of my trip this week.

Met with PS and KMF to discuss the redesign. PS will work on some aspects which are already clear, while we make final decisions on menu contents and behaviour.

I'm now handling the whitespace issues in the output as well as could be expected, and I've made a start on prettying up the page a bit. I still have to add some JS enabling-and-disabling of controls based on the values of other controls, and then we're done.

DONE, 18Mar13.

I have put a list of feature structure questions for further consideration into the docs folder in the SVN respository. It's called feature_structure_questions_Jan2013.odt.

ECH's paper copy of these questions, with our notes on it, is in the blue folder in the top box of Lexware data!

Received batch #12 of changes/additions from DR for site.

In progress:

- renaming of navigation
- sorting out news & events
- moving photos
- creating folders within photo folder for future incoming photos
- creating new layout for alumni
- creating new layout for research
- obtaining java script for special "more" & "less" features on specific pages
- applying java script to research section

After a bit of experimentation I've discovered that serializing documents that include OpenLayers maps need to be served as text/html. I was serializing may pages as application/xhtml+xml and I got javascript errors like:

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Document> has no method 'write' 

So, for OL pages, use this serialization option:

declare option exist:serialize "method=html5 media-type=text/html encoding=utf-8 indent=yes";

The obvious problem with serving as text/html is that, according to the spec:

The 'text/html' media type [RFC2854] is primarily for HTML, not for XHTML. In general, this media type is NOT suitable for XHTML except when the XHTML is conforms to the guidelines in Appendix A. In particular, 'text/html' is NOT suitable for XHTML Family document types that add elements and attributes from foreign namespaces, such as XHTML+MathML [XHTML+MathML].

According to the spec, then, if one wants to use something like SVG directly in the document, you may not be able to on pages like this. Using SVG graphics in CSS seems to be OK, though.
I'm not yet sure what impact this will have on OL maps that include SVG via JS.

Received T4's for staff; distributed to those on campus; advised those off campus to
pick up or T4 will be mail this week according to deadline

Balanced and confirmed PC for year end; forwarded completed report to BK (Acctng)
Copies filed.