using the browser as an activity platform : pyxpcom / hulahop / Gears

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks; and hello, Brad.  I'm creating a related wikireader group to address
offline reader development; only one of the uses of gears on the XO.  Please
list yourself at [[Wikireader]] if you want to join.

SJ

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Ben Lisbakken <lisbakke at google.com> wrote:

> I'm going to add Brad Neuberg to this conversation.  He is a colleague
> of mine on the Google Gears project and he has been looking for a
> contact at OLPC.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM, ffm <ffm246 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2008 6:21 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The core use here is being able to use the browser as activity
> > > platform -- letting web developers good at JS code and test on most
> > > any platform, and develop something that can be a first-class activity
> > > within Sugar.  One example is Dan's javascript spreadsheet, anothe ris
> > > a dynamic library (see for instance
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Dynamic_library), another is an existing web
> > > service online that one might want to run locally.
> > >
> > > In addition to pyxpcom, let me add Google Gears as a useful piece of
> > > this platform, especially when offering local use of popular online
> > > tools.  Off the top of my head, MediaWiki, MindMeister, I copy Ben
> > > Lisbakken, a gears maintainer, who reports that there is a Gears patch
> > > to make it work without extension support...
> >
> > Is there any way that one could get involved with the
> google-gears-on-the-xo
> > spec drafting/implementation process? This is something I might be
> > interested in contributing to, but I cannot find anything about it on
> the
> > wiki.
> >
> >
> > -FFM
>
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