I was working w/ Trinarayan today on running flash activities on the XO and we came upon a lot of features we need in Browse. For the moment we are using firefox 3 but would like to use Browse instead.
1. Display flash by default. A lot of existing educational resource use flash. Some people don't like turning on flash because it slows down a lot of pages. We want it turned on because most of the sites of educational value either use flash heavily or not at all. We don't care if www.tv.com is slow or Myspace takes a long time to load. 2. Tabs -- we need them It takes too long to alt+tab between multiple instance of Browse. I don't think kids will be confused by multiple tabs but we can test this out soon. 3. Browse doesn't find Flash's settings.sol file. Flash needs permission to open html files on the local machine. We intend these files to be in the flash activity bundle and this permission has to be set in settings.sol While we are developing some of our activities in flash, because we can do it faster than in EToys. We are still doing activity development with EToys, just not all of it in EToys. It is impossible to hire someone w/ Squeak experience in Nepal and very time-consuming for them to get up-to-speed. Thought for the day: Flash is important! The folks more likely to develop learning activities will come from a webdev/graphic design background and less likely kernel hackers. The former type are quite familiar w/ Flash, html, and photoshop. As much as we would like them to use Squeak or Python to develop activities, it's gonna take a while. Let's not shut them out by not supporting flash well. Also, countries that have invested heavily in IT already have typically also invested heavily in flash. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar