On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:10 AM, James Simmons <jim.simm...@walgreens.com> wrote: > Wade, > > Since two of my Activities are referred to by name in your proposal I > suppose I should have an opinion on it, but I don't fully understand the > proposal. It sounds like you want to mix content and Activity in the > same bundle. So I guess you could write some sort of presentation using > HTML and JavaScript and bundle it up like an Activity that contains a > pointer to the Browse component needed to use it? > > You mention that Activities like Read, Read Etexts, etc. don't create > content, and thus are not like real Activities. That is currently true, > but lately I've been thinking of adding an Annotation feature to Read > Etexts which would let the user attach notes to individual pages of the > etext, as well as highlight passages with a yellow background (like > marking up a book with a hi-lighter pen). The notes and highlight > coordinates would be stored in as a collection of objects which would be > pickled and the pickle file would be stored in a Zip file along with the > original etext. So students assigned to read an etext could create > their own content in the form of notes and highlights and share these > with other students along with the text. > > Acrobat allows you to annotate PDFs so maybe Read could support this one > day too. >
I plan to implement something like this in Read over the next few weeks. It would not be annotations - but bookmarks and notes associated with them. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
