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</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=fluid-work@fluidproject.org&q=from:%22Colin+Clark%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Colin Clark</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=fluid-work@fluidproject.org&q=date:20120307" rel="nofollow">Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:35:44 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre>That's a sensible long-term approach. Can we think of what strategies we have at our disposal in cases where older content can't be retrofitted with support for UI Options? I imagine that this is the case with OER Commons--there may be really useful content that isn't actively maintained anymore but that would still benefit from UI Options' features.</pre><pre> Colin On 2012-03-07, at 3:13 PM, Antranig Basman wrote: > To me, this problem of styling content hosted from external sites lies > squarely in the "wider mission" of UIO, that is, to be not only an > application local to a page, but one which enables a user's preferences to be > stored in a central "cloud" location, shared across multiple sites. > My feeling is that we shouldn't try to address this issue with OER without > starting to create the extra designs and infrastructure that we were planning > for the "wider mission" of UIO. > > Cheers, > Antranig > > On 07/03/2012 10:28, Li, Cindy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm at the stage of evaluating the problems we may encounter at implementing >> UI Options onto <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oercommons.org">http://www.oercommons.org</a>. Dealing with<iframe> is one >> major issue. >> >> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oercommons.org">http://www.oercommons.org</a> uses<iframe> to display the contents of OER items >> that are from other websites. In this example page - >> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oercommons.org/courses/acoustics-for-music-theory/view">http://www.oercommons.org/courses/acoustics-for-music-theory/view</a>,<iframe> >> points to an external link <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cnx.org/content/m13246/latest/">http://cnx.org/content/m13246/latest/</a>. As >> predictable, the UIO settings' adjustments aren't able to be applied onto >> the iframe content. >> >> I'm listing 2 ideas that were in my mind but all turned out >> mission-impossible in case they could be fleshed out: >> >> 1. Replace iframe with div by ajax fetching the external link and >> displaying<body> part in a div. However, maintaining the css styling, js >> and other inclusions would be a good problem at the drop of<head>. >> >> 2. Improve UIO to deal with this type of<iframe>, which involves the cross >> site scripting that is against the "law". >> >> Your thoughts are appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Cindy --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fluidproject.org">http://fluidproject.org</a> _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - fluid-work@fluidproject.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work">http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work</a> </pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg06791.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="thrd5.html#06792">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="mail5.html#06792">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg06793.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg06787.html">When UIO meets <iframe></a></span> <span class="sender italic">Li, Cindy</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg06791.html">Re: When UIO meets <iframe></a></span> <span class="sender italic">Antranig Basman</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject">Re: When UIO meets <iframe></span> <span class="sender italic">Colin Clark</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg06793.html">Re: When UIO meets <iframe></a></span> <span class="sender italic">Antranig Basman</span></li> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </div> <div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble"> <div class="msgReply" > <h2> Reply via email to </h2> <form method="POST" action="/mailto.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Re: When UIO meets <iframe>"> <input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="183A2558-CA3E-49E2-B7D9-FE9BBEB527AB@gmail.com"> <input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="fluid-work@fluidproject.org/msg06792.html"> <input type="submit" value=" Colin Clark "> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="aside" role="complementary"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a> </div> <form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="l" value="fluid-work@fluidproject.org"> <label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label> <input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search fluid-work"> <input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit"> </form> <div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation"> <ul class="icons font16"> <li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li class="icons-list"><a href="/fluid-work@fluidproject.org/">fluid-work - 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