I would like to make a request that a simple configuration be made to the current Drupal platform that will take all of five minutes and provide an escape hatch for a lot of problems organizers have to deal with. The change is a standard Drupal feature called "input filtering" and it only need to be enable for course organizers. The change involves setting the input filter to not filter out <iframe>'s. <br>
<br>I created a screencast using wink to demonstrate how the resulting page would work by injecting a could of simple jQuery statements into the course page. Here is typical content I would like to embed via an <iframe> :<br>
<br><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/dandiebolt/WXPQS/embedded/result,html,css,js/">http://jsfiddle.net/dandiebolt/WXPQS/embedded/result,html,css,js/</a><br><br>and here is the screencast:<br><br><a href="https://www.quickbase.com/up/bf4srafff/g/rb/eg/va/Embedjsfiddle.swf">https://www.quickbase.com/up/bf4srafff/g/rb/eg/va/Embedjsfiddle.swf</a><br>
<br>You might have to go to full screen so see all the details because I don't have time to put a wrapper and controls around the swf file.<br><br>Although the embedded page in this example shows output content, I would like to additionally use the form for input so that users could seamlessly submit a url representing their work to an external database rather than use email to mere report "<i>here is my url for this week's assignment</i>." It is a royal pain in the ass to have to administer this outside of the P2PU platform for large courses.<br>
<br>Here is a link to Drupal's input filtering feature:<br><br><a href="http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-input-formats-and-filters">http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-input-formats-and-filters</a><br><br>This is a simple thing to implement and would take all of five minutes.<br>
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