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So folks Etherpad.com is definatley closing, and only 2 weeks later than I predicted.  Do not fret though, Etherpad.org (Run by the Open source Etherpad Foundation) has promised to have a good transition plan in place within the next 7 days and I will be helping with the process.  Etherpad isn’t dead, if anything this is just the beginning 🙂

Obviously I recommend schools use Primary Pad but I am biased.

Here is an extract from Aaron Iba’s statement:

EtherPad service will remain the same until April 14th.

On April 14th, we will disable new pad creation, but you will still be able to access your existing pads.

On May 14th, we will shut down the service and replace the etherpad.com home page with links to other services.

As a reminder, here are two helpful ways to get your data off of EtherPad servers:

• For free public pads, you can export the pad data to various formats through the “Import/Export” tab at the top of the pad page.
• For Professional Edition pads, you can export pads individually or download a single ZIP file of all your pad data by clicking the “Download all pads” link at the bottom of the pad list.

I decided to test Opera mini 5 beta today on my android phone and although it claims to support designMode I couldn’t get many sites that use the feature working, Etherpad, as an example does not work and no output/error is displayed by the browser.

An extract from Becta – Learning platform functional requirements

“A learning platform is not expected to be a single product but rather a collection of interoperable systems or modules from different suppliers. Each may perform discrete functions….”

Does your school fulfil this expectation?

Overview:

This is a partial fix to the problem that etherpad assumes to be installed on a domain of the form x.y

This patch makes it work for an z.x.y domain, probably breaking it for x.y domains (but I don’t know javascript enough to be sure – parts[2] will be undefined though)

To make it properly we should check how many elements there are into parts[]. Until this is done this is a mere workaround.

Modified code: (pro_utils.js) – Usually found in /usr/local/etherpad/trunk/etherpad/src/etherpad/pro

Lines 47 – 54 should be modified to read:

function getRequestSuperdomain() {

var parts = request.domain.split('.');

parts.reverse();

if (parts[0] == ".") {

parts.shift();

}

return [parts[2], parts[1], parts[0]].join('.');

}

Google group discussion talking (without presenting a solution) of this problem

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