Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-18 Thread Wade Brainerd
Great to hear Finance has been translated and will be offered! Please let me know if there are any features that would make it more useful for you guys. Note that it's not in any way Tax related, it's simply for planning and recording personal finances - income and expenses over time. Cheers,

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-16 Thread Mike Dawson
Dear Wade, Thanks for that - I got it co-operating - I found that something had gone wrong with inkscape. Indeed there is some relation to the finance activity - we are focusing on finding the economic info and presenting it (e.g. we have a listing of common businesses that people start such as

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Dawson
Hey All, The offline spec is indeed something very cool - I had some time back done some work with XSL to try to create something that would have a similar effect with Apache cocoon - but nothing can (or should) beat a w3c standard. What we are trying to do in Afghanistan to see if we can offset

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:25, Mike Dawson mikeofmanches...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, The offline spec is indeed something very cool - I had some time back done some work with XSL to try to create something that would have a similar effect with Apache cocoon - but nothing can (or should) beat

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-02-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Mike, Make sure to restart Sugar between activity changes (Ctrl+Alt+Erase) as the shell doesn't automatically pick up changes yet. Also, make sure the .SVG is located in the same folder as the activity.infofile. You might try copying a .svg from another activity (say Browse) and renaming it

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-13 Thread S Page
Carlos Nazareno wrote: You can go with Processing (http://www.processing.org/) but Java is a bit problematic on the XO. Heh, http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ is the Processing language running in a canvas. Works on XO, slowly. (I hope XULRunner 1.9.1 with the Tracemonkey JIT shows up in

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:15 AM, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote: Carlos Nazareno wrote: - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread S Page
Sameer Verma wrote: E.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry -- why bother with crappy static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available? And you can View Source it! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!! This is definitely going down in

Re: HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-12 Thread Carlos Nazareno
the people with skills to do it are rare. The Flash Platform is the easiest way to do all of that. I haven't seen anything that can tie up interactive media as easy with scalable complexity like Flash has. Some early pioneers were John Maeda, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura, Robert Hodgins, and Ze

HTML-based/Browser apps (was Re: anti-cheating)

2009-01-11 Thread S Page
Carlos Nazareno wrote: - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon startup. See the Help activity in 8.2.0, it instantiates the