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On the roadmap for Moodle 2.8 is the "Element Library" - Sam Hemelryk and I have been prototyping, investigating and specifying how we think this should be approached. We think that the scope of this issue, is much bigger than adding a few html pages with different sized headings - there are some improvements needed to the output API ("fix all the things") in Moodle that will deliver benefits to developers and themers. 

Please read our specification here: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Render_library_specification (Yes, the entire thing - and the links). We would love to get as much feedback from themers and developers as possible (I'll link to this post in those forums). 

There is one very important point to think about while reading that specification:
* We do not want to break anything - everything we do will be fully backwards compatible (and not in an annoying - debugging messages kind of way). 

Thanks for your time, please put your comments in a reply on this discussion, not on the wiki page - Sam and I 

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Martin D, [30.08.16 11:13]
Juan see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pM3Ax3lahpWdre7p4NbRV5hNE12D0s1f3TWBJI4gXDM/edit#gid=6

Damyon, [30.08.16 11:30]
These are the ones I think are not clear:
#1 (need the plain language explanations from somewhere)
#2 (we don't have a language string that says "Private message" - that was language in their own test scripts)
#3 (having a peristent chat interface on every page in Moodle is a BIG change and I'm not sure that is what messaging is intended for) 
#5 (switch from relative time to absolute time) - I don't see any justification for this in any of the tests - and when I was watching the sessions, I saw people conducting the tests just put their own opinions into the comments on several things (not sure if this is one of them)
#31 "Massage the organizational structure." What does this mean ?

damyon

Demo of theme:

http://prototype.moodle.net/theme/


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