John,
Would you mind forwarding me your notes regard your discussions with google. I
am starting a similar discussion with google on behalf of Sugar Labs.
I think that we can leverage the availability of sugar in developed nations to
offset the cost of creating the services that OLPC is looking
Hi,
First, gears is a browser plugin. It provides a capability to
'go_offline' by copying web pages and resources (jpg, pdf, ...) to a
local SQLite database based on a manifest. While offline, gears provides
a local proxy server which responds to http requests by supplying the
page (with links
"This discussion should move to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as it refers to software
running on the laptop, not the server."
I disagree. The Gears plugin may run on the laptop, but all the code of the
application ( javscript and the php that generates it) is executed and
maintained on the server: Moodle in
I've talked to Google specifically about using Gears on the XO.
Once they understood OLPC's goals and operating environment,
they didn't think Gears was appropriate. It was really designed
for constant connectivity.
That doesn't mean Google should support Gears in a BitFrost
environment (for th
Gears sounded like a exciting way to go right when Martin L told me on Skype
two weeks ago. That's why I've committed a talented guy like Ruben to dig on
this task. We are starting to work on it, and it might even work [image:
guiño]
BUT, in I've been working on a WS architecture for Moodle that c
