David Scotson

I'm struggling to think of occasions when you wouldn't want the Flash player, but ...

Would defaulting to the flash player for recognised audio files and adding a download link (or something similarly worded) on every Flash audio player page which opens in a new window give you the best of both worlds?

Then you could rename the checkbox to "ensure site navigation remains visible with frames" to suggest that it will only alter things when necessary?

It's a tricky one, that's for sure. (edit: and the allegedly 'thoughtful' smiley looks like he's rolling his eyes at you).

I just tried to link to an uploaded MP3 file, hoping to take advantage of the inbuilt Flash audio player.

The default option was to open this resource in a new frame. This however appeared to prevent the Flash audio player from operating. In order to fix this I had to first display the options and then choose to not use a frame.

I doubt this solution would be obvious or discoverable to the average user, and the ominous warning ("Put resource in a frame to keep site navigation visible") would put you off unchecking that box when experimenting, even though in this case it is actually untrue.

Having said that, this is the first time I have used this feature so I may be going about things the wrong way. So, is this a bug?

I didn't realise the Bodington system had a first name, but I'm fairly certain it only has one d.

You may be confusing it with the beer.

There are two decisions, each with two options, giving four outcomes:

• forced to be subscribed initially and cannot unsubscribe later
• forced to be subscribed initially but can unsubscribe later
• not initially subscribed, but can subscribe later
• not initially subscribed and cannot subscribe later

The fourth option is (as far as I can tell) useless and so it makes sense to condense these to a single option with three choices.

Also, with both the current system and with this change, if the subscription is not forced then you can check who is subscribed to a forum by clicking on the Show/edit current subscribers link in the top-right corner of the forum screen.

Not only will this show you who is subscribed, it gives you the power to unsubscribe a specific individual as well as un/subscribe all participants.

You are right that the enrolment interface with two lists of subscribed/unsubscribed students and arrows to shift between them is needed to make this fully flexible, but you can already to 80% of what you ask for.

Correction: you can do everything you ask for, as this last feature appears to be in Moodle version 1.4

I see a slight problem with Safari 1.2.3 on Mac OS X Panther (screenshot attached)

I like the site design and content, do you have any experience with PyObjC and PyCocoa? Or any plans to write about it? There doesn't seem to be many tutorials available but it seems really cool.