Sakai 2+3 Hybrid Status (Christmas update from Christian Vuerings)

Christian posted this update to the Sakai  User Experience and Developer mail lists. Exciting progress on Hybrid mode...

"I assume that you've all seen the video from Lance [1] which showed some of the work we've done on the Sakai 2+3 hybrid mode. During the last few weeks we've made some changes which should make the overall experience better for the user."

 "- Simultaneous login: when you log into Sakai 3 you should be automatically logged into Sakai 2 as well. 

 - Instead of having one iframe which contains the whole of Sakai 2 we now only load the tools inside iframes. The list of sites & the titles of the tools are loaded outside the iframe. This gives us more control and more flexibility.

 - When you click on a tool, there is an active status set on the link 

 - Added a link next to the title of each tools so you can reset the tool 

 - Speed improvements: if a tool was loaded before, you don't need to reload it again. 

 - Removed the s23tools widget which became redundant after we added the simultaneous login and the ability to load the list of tools in Sakai 3 

 - Because we are only loading a specific tool inside an iframe, I was able to add the header back to the Sakai 2 instance. 

 - The height of the iframe is set dynamically. 

You can test the latest version out on [2] (admin-admin / user1-test) and you can access the Sakai 2 instance on [3]. If you find any bugs let us know by making a Jira in the Sakai 3 - Core project and start the summary with "Sakai 2+3:". The only issue we encountered so far is SAKAIII-94 [4]. 

Some guidelines for people who want to modify or add code to the Sakai3 front-end: 

 - We now use the K2 proxy service (/var/proxy) instead of accessing the sakai hybrid services directly (/sakai-hybrid/) 

 - We try to keep the s23 front-end code as separate as possible (/dev/s23/ & /devwidgets/s23/) from the native Sakai 3 code. 

 - You can find the latest K2 code on [5] and s23 3akai-ux code on [6]. 

Christian 

[1] http://vimeo.com/7986913

[2] http://sakai3.caret.cam.ac.uk/dev/index.html

[3] http://sakai3.caret.cam.ac.uk/portal

[4] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAKIII-94

[5] http://github.com/ieb/open-experiments

[6] http://github.com/christianv/3akai-ux "