Posts made by David Scotson

Moodle in English -> Lounge -> AntiSpyware... -> Re: AntiSpyware...

by David Scotson -

No, seriously, speaking as someone who installs

on relatives' machines, hides Explorer and Outlook express, and then regularly checks that they're keeping these multiple products up to date with the most recent updates and makes sure they're tech-savvy enough to not double-click or accept things that they shouldn't, my advice is: get a Mac! They are well worth it.

For less advanced usage--email and web--a Linux desktop will do just as well, but it takes a bit more savvy to set up for a user in the first place.

(And some people have the gall to say that "Open Source Software is only free if your time is worth nothing.")

Well it is called test.moodle.com because it is used to test features. I assume the RSS block and messaging service have been placed there in order to find the errors. (There's actually only 2 errors, unencoded ampersands in the RSS links account for most of the errors and a missing alt attribute text on a message image.)

Trying to search the forums still breaks in Firefox in a really bizarre way though.

try it

Is there documentation anywhere of what's been done and what's planned vis a vis XHMTL compliance and accessability? It would probably be a better guage of progress than validating random pages.

Moodle in English -> Themes -> Breadcrumbs and CSS -> Re: Breadcrumbs and CSS

by David Scotson -

I've not tested it but the following code should work without any need to change the standard Moodle HTML.


.navbar, .navbar a:link, .navbar a:visited, .navbar a:hover {
  color: #FFFFFF;
  font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: none
}

.navbar a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

Though you seem to already have changed the code on your site so you might need to replace each occurance of navbar with tabs. But even then it is the <td> tag that needs the tabs class, not the <a> tags within it. (I notice that Moodle.org has 'mynavbar' as the classname for this area. I don't know why it's different.)

Also note that by both changing link and non-link text to the same color and also removing the underline except on hover you may send confusing signals about what is a clickable link and what is not.