Re: Media links

[Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>]

Am just curious: any progress on this so far?

Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> OK, I'm thinking about presenting various media/images/etc. in UU
> text. Two good examples are geometry figures, that are needed
> in in problems and explanations, and math formulae.
>
> Geometry figures will most likely be just images uploaded to our systems.
> Formulae will be stored internally as LaTeX (how we will present them
> to user for editing, is another question). Primary difference between
> these two is that first is just uploaded file, while second is generated
> file.
>
> What I am thinking about right now, is that we need a "UUText" class,
> that will represent any text rendered by UU on screen. Examples of
> such texts: topic explanations, problem statements, test descriptions, etc.
>
> Internally this text will be some sort of simple markup language (either
> XML, or Wiki style - have to decide on this), that will allow linking to
> other objects. When interpreting the text, it will request those object from
> their respective storage places. If object needs to be generated, it will
> be generated and cached. If object generation/retrieval fails, some
> sort of appropriate "placeholder" object is returned. Then all of it is
> converted
> into HTML, and sent to browser..
>
>   

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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
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