Richard Willis – SharePoint Learning Kit Coordinator, SalamanderSoft Owner

I’ve recently added support for Firefox and other browsers to SharePoint Learning Kit. It turned out to be quite a bit more work than I was hoping, but I’ve now now got a version with works. I even had to update the sample SCORM content Solitaire and that in itself was IE specific.

The code for the SCORM player is quite complex with frames in frames in frames, so it wasn’t just a case of changing document.all to document.getElementById everywhere, I had to understand how all the frames fitted together. I’m not sure why the orginal authors went down this root. I can see that the actual content needs to be in a frame as quite often it’s a complete HTML page of its own, but the rest of the navigation should have been able to be done in a single page.

The patches are available on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/SLK/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx and are numbers 2068, 2069 and 2070.

I’ve provided compiled versions of SLK (based on 1.3.1) and Solitaire at http://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/slkfirefox.html.

Yesterday I attended a meeting of the East Anglia SharePoint Network, where I had been invited to give an overview of SalamanderSoft’s products. The network runs as a series of regular, informal, face-to-face meetings and an on-line community for schools in East Anglia to share information / good practice / problems etc with their Sharepoint implementations.

This was only their second meeting, but the meeting was well attended with a good mix of schools who have been using SharePoint for years, together with those who were just starting to use it, or even just thinking about it. There was a lot of useful information, just seeing what other schools are doing with SharePoint raises all sorts of possibilities – I certainly learned a lot and have come away with some ideas.

If you are interested in joining, attending a meeting or just finding out more then just email David Wilson (david.wilson (at) swaveseyvc.cambs.sch.uk).