It was my 1st day as a student on with the Open University, I don't know which version of moodle it was, but the problem came when trying to use a wiki. I just got a bot of HTML, with no toolbar or button to convert it to WYSIWYG. Although I have since found out the same thing happens in Safari.
Chrome also has a very worrying discalimer :
“By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.”
“You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.”
Although you can still update the wiki in html, if a course includes a wiki, then there is a good chance that is intended to be used by a number of learners and/or staff, the majority of whom won't have the knowladge, time or inclination to edit what could easilly become a complecated peice of html.
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That's a shame, but thanks for warning us, you have saved me some time.
1 year, 5 months ago by davefoord
@Kev
Which version of Moodle are you running?
What doesn't quite work?
Thanks
1 year, 5 months ago by jamesclay
It was my 1st day as a student on with the Open University, I don't know which version of moodle it was, but the problem came when trying to use a wiki. I just got a bot of HTML, with no toolbar or button to convert it to WYSIWYG. Although I have since found out the same thing happens in Safari.
Chrome also has a very worrying discalimer : “By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.”
“You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.”
1 year, 5 months ago by kevhickeyuk
My Jaiku posts obviously carry alot of weight with google as they have apparently just removed this part of the disclaimer http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/09/04/1220121394391.html
1 year, 5 months ago by kevhickeyuk
Chrome uses WebKit as does Safari which probably explains the issue with the lack of WYSIWYG in editing wiki pages, discussion posts, etc...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=google+chrome+webkit&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
If you know your HTML you can "enhance" your postings and links accordingly.
1 year, 5 months ago by jamesclay
Although you can still update the wiki in html, if a course includes a wiki, then there is a good chance that is intended to be used by a number of learners and/or staff, the majority of whom won't have the knowladge, time or inclination to edit what could easilly become a complecated peice of html.
1 year, 5 months ago by kevhickeyuk
Part of the problem is that the HTML editor that Moodle uses is an old one.
This is related to webkit bug 13229 (http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13229).
According to them, Moodle is using a discontinued HTML editor that is not supported by webkit.
Moodle 2.0 does use the TinyMCE editor and as a result should work in Safari and Chrome.
1 year, 5 months ago by jamesclay
I suspect if it was easy, it would have been done!
1 year, 5 months ago by jamesclay
Blogged about this. http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/google-chrome-and-moodle/
1 year, 5 months ago by jamesclay
Don't understand much of this. Sorry - much doh! on my part .. Will I survive?
1 year, 5 months ago by DavidSugden