> From: Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas > > Using Logo Wiki as a way to encourage people to download a plugin would > be a mistake IMHO. Putting all your code into a little dead box > embedded on a web page is pretty lame, and it shows. There's only two > kinds of plugins that matter anymore: video (Quicktime, Windows Media, > etc) and Flash. And Flash is taking over video too. Everything else is > entirely dead (and good riddance!). Plugins of various kinds have been > done many, many times, and failed many, many times. (There's even a > Logo/Java plugin: http://turtletracks.sourceforge.net/) > > OTOH, if you really want fancy output, you want Flash pure and simple. > I'm glad Logo Wiki is in Javascript and uses the canvas, but if they > really want more control and graphical power then Flash is the obvious > next step. >
Here is a subset of Logo (The turtle graphics subset) in Spanish implemented in Flash: http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/LogoFlash.html One of it's deficiencies is that the projects can't be really stored from session to session. They vanish when the browser window is closed. Daniel _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
