When using a try/catch for a find if the first match is not met then we
have an implicit 6 second delay waiting for the search to time out.
We can avoid this by combining the searches in a comma-separated
selection.
I have also taken the opportunity to convert the use of ->click() to the
i_click_on function which has the benefit of supporting wait for
pendingJS.
The standard NodeElement functions for getAttribute, getTagName,
getParent, and friends go back to WebDriver and parse the DOM for each
request. This is insanely slow per request, and in the case of forms we
do a lot of checking to determine the field type.
This change modifies the form field detection to copy the entire node
content into a DOMDocument and parse the document locally.
This is significantly faster - in some cases where there are large
documents minutes faster.
I believe that this should be a safe change as the document fetched from
the browser is normalised to match the doctype specified.
Picasa is discontinued since 2016 so google_picasa class has been
removed from core Moodle (it makes no sense to deprecate it because
it's not working properly)..
The Flash Player was deprecated in 2017 and officially discontinued
on 31 December 2020, so media_swf player has been completely
removed from Moodle core.
MDL-71899 produces a regression. When an activity plugin is not present
but it has activities in the DB the course view returns an exception.
With this patch the code will ignore missing modules when calculating
the completion.
As the message_jabber notification plugin has been removed from core,
the XMPPHP library (aka Jabber) is not required any more so it has
been completely removed from Moodle core too.
The following blocks have been removed from the Dashboard:
- Online users
- Upcoming events
- Learning plans
- Recently accessed courses
This change will only apply on new installations.
- Modified SQL in get_data() to get the activity completion of all course modules without calling get_fast_modinfo() to reduce the DB queries.
- Building activity completion cache for the whole course in one time instead of building the cache for each course module by passing $wholecourse = true to get_data()
This implementation will introduce a qbank plugin "previewquestion"
which will view the preview question action in the question bank
actions by replacing the core classes, scripts and yui modules.
This plugin will also replace the preview option in the edit
question form. Having this plugin will give users the
flexibility of enabling or disabling this feature from
the question bank view.
This change will also allow other qbank plugins to add
elements or information in the preview question page
by implementing a callback. It also changes the pop
up to page redirect from base view page to make sure
any changes in preview reflects in the base view, for
example, comments added and the number of comments in
the comments colum changes while back from the preview
page. Other locations like edit and qtype plugins where
the preview is implemented, stays the same.
Co-Authored-By: Guillermo Gomez Arias <guillermogomez@catalyst-au.net>
Co-Authored-By: Safat Shahin <safatshahin@catalyst-au.net>
