Alex Little

Have now done quite a lot to catch up on where I left off in July – well at least I’ve now remembered what I was actually doing!

Have spent some time today trying to exlain to people some of the conceptual issues/problems I’ve been having. For example, trying to work out what the player should _actually_ look like to users, without using lots of frames or iframes to display the content to the user. Because the LD spec is designed to be generic (in that the content of the activities/environments etc can be any file type) this can create problems in creating a generic player to show any of this back to the user in a single web page – hence the suggestion of using frames, or breaking out into new windows. The problem with breaking into new windows is that the player could just end up looking like a whole list of links for the user to follow, which may not be very engaging!

Also trying to encourage people to put some more content together, which will help me loads in seeing how the player should look.

This is all before (of course) I get on to looking at how the services should be interoperating with the player and how the conditions/properties should be incorporated when we get on to looking at level B and C content