On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Jerry Vonau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:52 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> 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/ >> > > The biggest blocker for browse supporting HTML5 right now is that latest > urlrunner that does support HTML5 from fedora(the last update before > becoming EOL'd) is blocked from installation by olpc-os-builder by > having the rpm present in the olpc rpm repositories.[0] I'm unsure if > there are any changes done to the rpm by olpc or if this is fallout from > building the olpc rpms for both i386 and arm while arm was in > development.
Yes, there's a bug that's patched. Peter _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
