IMO LivelyKernel is unacceptably slow even on Safari on faster hardware than what XO has.
However other web app toolkits are not as heavy weight --or slow-- as Lively Kernel. For example, I and a colleague of mine have been working on a javascript GUI app development toolkit that uses standard XTHML div-based rendering for most things, but uses SVG when SVG is clearly the right answer. Using such a hybrid approach, one can achieve much better performance: For example, http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/madeline/webservice.php is a demonstration web service built using our toolkit. A question to ask might be, when will the XO get updated to use FF3's new rendering engine? The new engine is supposed to be faster, although I have not found that to really be the case on our machines. - Ed On Dec 21, 2007 1:28 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007, at 21:06 , Jake B wrote: > > > Hello All, > > I am expecting to get my XO laptop in the mail any day now. I was > > hoping someone could tell me, does the XO ship with with an SVG > > renderer? I'm wondering if it would be possible to develop rich > > apps in SVG and ECMAscript for deployment on the XO. > > I remember that there used to be an entry on SVG on the wiki, but > > it appears to have been taken down... > > Please let me know. Thanks. > > It works - but depending on the complexity of your app it gets rather > slow. > > For example, even Lively Kernel worked, which is a full in-browser > application development environment: > > http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/ > > - Bert - > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
