alice-teacher Posted Alice 3.1

[Susan Rivas]

Hi Don,
Thank you for saving the day! Yes, now the Alice 3.1 Worlds my students
created can be downloaded and enjoyed. I appreciate your help.

Take care,
Susan



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> See the following link, which will offer some explanations, if not a real
> solution:
>
> http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/qt/html_dwnld_tag.htm
>
> This paragraph from the above link offers some insight into what is going
> on...
>
> When you click on a link in a web page, your web browser automatically
> attempts to open that link in the browser window. And now, with various
> plugins and other features, browsers can open more and more files that they
> used to be forced to download. Most of the time, this is what we want—after
> all, we're building web pages. But sometimes you post files to your website
> that you want people to download to their hard drive rather than view in
> the browser window.
>
>
> It seems that the format of .a3p is different enough from the .a2w files,
> so that browsers will attempt to open the .a3p, and they do not try to open
> the .a2w.
>
> I do not believe that the “_blank” modifier to the target tag really has
> impact on whether the browser will attempt to download or open a file. See
> this link:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
>
> “_blank” species that the file will be open in a new window, which is what
> we see going on with the .a3p files.
>
> Your best bet for the .a3p files is to more prominently display
> instructions that users should right-click on the link and select to save
> the file to their machine (as recommended in the first link).
>
> I hope that this helps…
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Susan Rivas <susanmrivas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to post my students' "worlds" in Alice 3.1 and when I try to
> download them, they come out like garbage. Whereas, the games my students
> created in Alice 2.2 downloaded fine. I used the code: target="_blank" so
> that they would be individual downloadable files. Please let me know if you
> can figure out what I need to do.
>
> This is the link for the interactive games in Alice 2.2 that work:
> http://srivas-computerlab.com/bcc/video_game.html
>
> This is the link for the worlds in Alice 3.1 that do not download
> correctly: http://srivas-computerlab.com/acc/iWorld.html
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Take care,
> Susan Rivas
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Susan Rivas
Shoreline Middle School
855 17th Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
(831)475-6565 ext. 214

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