This discussion properly resides on sugar-devel, ideally as a follow on to this recent thread
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-June/031865.html cjl On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Nicholas Doiron <[email protected]> wrote: > Mikus, > > My suggestion was Webkit because it has support and innovation in mobile and > desktop browsers from both Google and Apple. Browse is missing offline > storage, semi-transparency, drag and drop, the interactive <video> and > <audio> tags, and other features which I know developers want, because I > wanted them for the Map activity. Even Internet Explorer has these now; > it's time for our web browsing to evolve, too. > > Sugar should put the browser on the same level as the home screen or the > Journal. It's where most users begin their classroom activities and store > their materials ( on a wiki, or school server, but accessed through Browse > ). Even in offline schools, we were looking at Wikipedia, media, books, and > graphs in the browser. > > -- > Nick > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> When the majority of classes are using the >>> Browse activity (did we hear something like 70-80% ? ) it sounds like it >>> would be wise to discuss ChromeOS and browser-based applications, >>> possibly >>> using a modern browser such a Webkit. >> >> I seem to have heard that the current Browse Activity does not even have a >> maintainer assigned to it. That is a problem of resource availability >> Would introducing (and deploying, and maintaining) something like ChromeOS >> reduce the load on the resources available ? >> >> I myself run a whole suite of Browsers on my XOs. For the websites I >> normally visit, there is very little difference among these browsers (that >> includes Browse). In particular, I have found neither the Chrome browser >> nor the Midori browser (which is Webkit based) to have better performance >> than Browse (when Browse has a good Flash plugin installed). >> [The joker is Opera - its performance varies - sometimes it's the best.] >> >> mikus >> > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
