On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 03:09 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi Bryan,
Developing learning activities requires the developer already know
something about programming. In Nepal, China, India that means they
have at least a pirated copy of Windows and possibly Adobe Flash.
If they
I think Bryan's idea is wonderfully practical. What's more, it sounds easy
to achieve. You just need a 'swf-activity' launcher, and a script to
sugarize .SWF files into .xo bundles which launch as fullscreen activities.
Building it around Browse is probably a bad idea (re: the .xol
Bryan, as usual, brings up great suggestions that require stepping outside
of our preconceptions.
Regarding Wade's comment, I have just provisioned an XO with Teapot's
Intrepid Ibex as popularized at olpcnews (beautiful package, btw). It
comes with tubewatcher, a script using clive to download a
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 12:30 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote:
I think Bryan's idea is wonderfully practical. What's more, it sounds
easy to achieve. You just need a 'swf-activity' launcher, and a
script to sugarize .SWF files into .xo bundles which launch as
fullscreen activities.
that's a
This is a draft of a multi-part article I plan to post to OLPC News.
It is very long but I would very much appreciate your opinions and
feedback. Your input will make it a better article once published.
This OLPC project seems to be going pretty well as of late December
2008. G1G1 v2 is well
Hi Bryan,
Sadly, Javascript can't use the Graphics Processing Unit like Flash
can. Ouch,
The XO doesn't have much of a GPU, so I wouldn't be so worried about
this. Any Javascript renderer that backs onto cairo will get as any
other graphics on the XO.
Many people will likely hate
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Subject: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II
This is a draft of a multi-part article I plan
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 23:06 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi Bryan,
Sadly, Javascript can't use the Graphics Processing Unit like Flash
can. Ouch,
The XO doesn't have much of a GPU, so I wouldn't be so worried about
this. Any Javascript renderer that backs onto cairo will get as any
...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Berry
Sent: Friday, 2 January 2009 12:51 PM
To: iaep; sugar
Subject: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II
This is a draft of a multi-part article I plan to post to OLPC News.
It is very long but I would very much
