On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg wrote: >>Thanks for keeping us apprised of your needs! > > My pleasure. > >>I'm also not aware of any feasible design proposal which might address >>your request. You need a precedent or engineering level suggestion to >>move this forward. Is this possible in Firefox at all? > > Probably not. ... > We need a way to seamlessly integrate supporting materials such as > readings, lesson plans, together with activities. HTML is the way to do > this and the browser is what we use to display html. URI's are what we > use to link to different resources. > > We may end up hacking Browse esp. to allow this because of the immense > demand. > > We need to make it dead simple for teachers to use activities like > EToys, E-Paath, Measure in the classroom. The easiest way to do this is > to make the transition from lesson plan to activity as easy as possible. > >>I think that having a URL launch a local application will >>be a fatal security hole. I don't know of any examples of that off the >>top of my head. > > I don't know squat about security but this is a very important application.
This is Ivan's domain. My guess is that there is a way to secure the process, but it might require some extra effort beyond a software fix, like teachers whitelisting URLs for lessons. Or perhaps just whitelisting our Moodle instances. Signed lesson plans? At any rate, _not_ allowing random outside URLs to launch local activities and give them scripts to run. >>My guess is that you need to re-think your Moodle >><-> activity model and work flow. If can solve the problem from there >>using the currently available functionality that will be the shortest >>path to a solution. > > I have rethought it and I believe more firmly that the moodle <-> > activity workflow is the way to go. ... > thank you for your attention to these important matters. You should come out > to > Nepal one of these days. As I told one of the developers recently: > Get Thee to a Pilot site! Any Pilot site! > > Bryan > Kathmandu > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
