Martin Dougiamas

It would be cool if, when it couldn't find 'php' (because command-line php isn't that common) that it also looked for wget, lynx etc and basically advised on the best thing to do. Oh yes, and it would be extra nice if it checked crontab for an existing entry just in case it's been run twice.

(Gosh it's nice being on this side of the fence for a change! )

Ah, I see the bug ... it's the new image resource display code. Fixed in CVS. Thanks for the report!

(In future, it's best to file this sort of thing as a bug at http://moodle.org/bugs so it can be tracked properly.)

Microsoft Office docs appearing "embedded" in web pages only works for Microsoft IE on Microsoft Windows.

I'd also like to see a site that lists various media and their browser/plugin compatibility, but I find it hard to believe that there isn't already a site out there that does this (because it's not a Moodle-specific thing, but more of a browser issue).

It's a nice dream, but anything you find is going to be a lot more basic than Excel - look how much space Excel takes up on your hard drive!

This is always a good place to research scripts: www.hotscripts.com.

eg:
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/19244.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/19469.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/15623.html

of course the other route is www.openoffice.org.

As long as your server is using slasharguments then there is no problem using relative links to images etc.  (see http://moodle.org/doc/?frame=faq.html&sub=filenotfound)

eg <img src="somefile.jpg">

... will work if the image file is in the same directory as the HTML file (within Moodle or elsewhere).