Re: [Sugar-devel] universal reference to datastore objects

2010-03-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 03.03.2010, at 14:50, Walter Bender wrote: > > This topic comes up now and again (e.g., > http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/ufrgs-talk.pdf). I raised it in > the context of wanted to create SVG files with embedded image data. > From #sugar: > > silbe: you are a DS/Journal guru... I h

Re: [Sugar-devel] universal reference to datastore objects

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Walter Bender wrote: >  walterbender: we could invent a new URL (URI?) scheme A file is a file is a file is a file. If the datastore is a thin, simple, unassuming abstraction, we can get a great UI experience with the affordances we hope to give kids; and we still

Re: [Sugar-devel] universal reference to datastore objects

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: > This topic comes up now and again (e.g., > http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/ufrgs-talk.pdf). I raised it in > the context of wanted to create SVG files with embedded image data. Yep, we've had this discussion many times. My first was April 2007: http://lists.sugarlabs.or

[Sugar-devel] universal reference to datastore objects

2010-03-03 Thread Walter Bender
This topic comes up now and again (e.g., http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/ufrgs-talk.pdf). I raised it in the context of wanted to create SVG files with embedded image data. >From #sugar: silbe: you are a DS/Journal guru... I have a question silbe: I generate svg files in TA