[Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

[Pablo Flores]

Hi! I've got good and bad news.

I tried BrowseNew, and it works fine for pictures uploading! As you can see,
I could upload pictures from an XO for the edublog. Question: Isn't it
possible to resize the picture?

I also tried pasting pictures from the clipboard and from Write (Ctrl-C
Ctrl-V) but it didn't work.

Finally, I tried to upload a picture to make a new post from Blogger, but it
just doesn't work :-( It seems popups are not working properly in this
browser, so I can get to the picture upload page, select the image to
upload, upload it, but I can never close the file uploading window! You can
see the screenshot of the Uploading window in
http://uruguay-xo-test.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-button.html... From this
page, you can't go back to the post editing page :( I wonder if this version
of the browser won't introduce new troubles...

Saludos,
Pablo Flores


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are so close!! Awesome team! Now lets bring it home...
>
> We have a new version of browse. It only works on build 656 so do not
> install it on other images.
>
> Get it from: http://olpc.betarun.com/BrowseNew-1.xo
>
> Just point your XO browser at that and it will install.
>
> Can someone test the workflow of:
> 1 - create text and image in write
> 2 - open new browse
> 3 - go to EduBlog (you can use
> http://olpc.betarun.com/dev/ui/student_sp.php if the new URL/login is
> not clear)
> 4 - pick what you created from the journal/file picker and upload it to
> the blog.
>
> I'd like to hear that working on build 656 before I ask the alpha test
> teachers to try it. Please also give the new browser and the whole XO a
> sniff test to see if there are any "regressions" due to this new browse.
>
> Tarun,
>
> These instructions are good:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions
>
> but I need to the URLs and logins (leave the password out). The shorter
> the URL the better so maybe we will need a "home page" but leave that
> for later. Add the links to the doc and I think we are ready for alpha
> test.
>
> If its not too hard, I think the new write with name changed and in .xo
> format may be useful. If you can make and post that too, I think we may need
> it.
>
> FYI I pasted the Moodle instructions and URLs below.
>
> E-mail me for a password if you want to try this out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> Hi,
>
> I just did a test, and it looks like everything is working decently. I'd be
> happy to hear anyone's comments on the UI and if there are any major bugs
> that need to be fixed before the beta test.  Please don't send these links
> out to too many people, they are to the unstable version.  When everything
> is working, it will be transferred to the stable area linked to from the
> main site.  (Also why I did not send this out to any public list).
>
> For testing, I've only made three accounts: tarun (Admin), student,
> teacher.  All three have the root password as the password.  The pages that
> comprise EduBlog (only one blog set up right now) are:
>
> Local Blog (Need Student Login):
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/view.php?id=3
> New Post (Need Student Login):
>
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=2
> New Blog (Need Teacher Login):
>
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0
> Manage Remote Blogs (Need Teacher Login):
>
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/manageremoteblogs.php
>
> Anyone using build 656 will need to install a patched version of Browse to
> get the image upload to work.  I had planned on attaching these, but my mail
> client is not cooperating with me at the moment.  I will send them out
> later.  You will need to remove the old versions first.  Image upload also
> still needs to be made IE compatible.  Other features all work in IE.
>
> It should take you to a login screen and after logging in, you should see
> the appropriate page.
>
> There are a few critical bugs I've already found, so please don't report
> these:
> 1) Required message shows up on tinyMCE with content and has to be
> submitted twice.
> 2) Clicking manage remote blogs when creating a blog results in loss of
> data entered.
> 3) Preview does not work on XO.  The IFrame ends up being blank.
> 4) Kids cannot post directly, teachers have to do publishing (more of an
> added feature than a bug)
>
> We also need to resolve how to do auth.  Two ideas come to mind: Name Only
> (No PW), Rename Password to Birthday or something the kids will be familiar
> with  (a tiny bit more secure).  In both cases, I'm trying to figure out how
> to make the info stored in a cookie so they will have to login infrequently.
>
> Support for uploading from Write will be challenging.  The version of
> libabiword in 656 does not properly support any popular format that I am
> aware of despite what abiword says (tried rtf and odt and xhtml) (xhtml does
> not do images, odt and rtf just don't work).  This means I need to figure
> out how to parse abw files in php.  I can't find any php libraries for this
> (but still looking furiously), meaning it needs to be done from scratch =(.
>
> Let me know if any of you want to work on the code or the theme directly,
> and Marcel or I can set you up with git access.
>
> Thanks,
> Tarun
>
> Tarun Pondicherry wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Walk me through the pages and a post from start to finish.
>>>
>>
>> I explained the options available here:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions  I'm still working on it
>> and adding some use cases, but thought I'd send this much out to help people
>> test things out.  Also looking for comments.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tarun
>>
>>
>>
>
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