Browse is old and not useful for a lot of newer content. Our communities are creating content in HTML5, an effort that we want to encourage.
However, Browse is based on the Gecko in engine in Firefox 3.6, which is far behind the times. I know that is is being ported to WebKit [1] as part of the GTK+3 transition. However, it'll be at least a year before we roll out a GTK+3 version of Sugar in our schools. What can we do in the interim? We can load a different Web browser, especially since now since saved files can be shared with the journal via the Documents/ directory [3]. The best I've found is an Opera wrapper from Flavio [2]. It scores much higher than Browse for HTML5 compliance [4], but nowhere near as much as Firefox 10 or Chromium 17. Also, Opera is proprietary software. Sridhar [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4503 [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Notes#Easier_file_exchange.. [4] http://html5test.com/ Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: [email protected] A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
