Joseph Rézeau

Hi Frederic

You do not say whether your whatsnew block works in Moodle 1.5DEV. I tried to install it and got this error message:

 Fatal error: Class 'MoodleBlock' not found in C:\Moodle4Windows\htdocs\moodle15\moodle\blocks\whatsnew\block_whatsnew.php on line 7

Joseph_R

> In Moodle 1.5 My Random Glossary block displays "There are no entries yet in the chosen glossary" although there are actually many entries in the selected glossary.

I have exactly the same problem. I have posted a bug report on this.

Has anyone actually managed to get this block working in 1.5?

Joseph_R

Hi Shane

Which Moodle version are you using?*

The bug is still there in version 1.4.2 but has been corrected in 1.4.3 (and in 1.5 DEV).

Joseph_R

* It is a good idea to always mention which version of Moodle you are using when reporting a bug.

Hi Janne.

• thanks for the link to  http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/

• > I absolutely hate javascript and I don't much fancy dhtml menus either.

It is everybody's right to love or hate such and such programing language, color, music, sport, etc. However, if I list the reasons why I use Javascript & DHTML I'd be interested to hear what viable alternatives you might suggest.

1. I'm only an amateur programmer and I find JS (Javascript) friendly enough for my needs (not a strong point, admitedly, but I do not want to learn java or c++; I would not mind exploring php but see next point);
2. JS will execute on the client (provided it has been enabled in the browser, of course), whereas PHP requires that I have access to a server with PHP enabled and that I am allowed to use it, 2 conditions seldom met in my working environment;
3. for my courses I use a lot of the Hot Potatoes exercises (or similarly JS-based exercises), which do rely on JS;
4. I make some of my DHTML pages more "interactive" by inserting JS snippets, and have no idea how I could achieve the same without JS;
5. in order to make my HTML pages browser-compatible (MSIE & Mozilla-type) I have to use some workarounds which again rely on JS...

Looking forward to your views & comments on this JS topic,

Joseph_R

> but why is javascript so bad?  Why don't people have this enabled by default?

Hi, Marc!
That's what I'm asking myself as well. So many Web sites these days are dependent on Javascript, all actual browsers can use JS that I am very surprised that we should still consider cases where visitors either have no access to JS or have it disabled.
Personally I heavily rely on JS (and CSS) in all of my personal & courses pages and cannot envisage doing without it.

Joseph_R