On Feb 16, 2008 6:21 PM, Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The core use here is being able to use the browser as activity<br>platform -- letting web developers good at JS code and test on most<br>any platform, and develop something that can be a first-class activity<br>within Sugar. One example is Dan's javascript spreadsheet, anothe ris<br>
a dynamic library (see for instance<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Dynamic_library" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Dynamic_library</a>), another is an existing web<br>service online that one might want to run locally.<br>
<br>In addition to pyxpcom, let me add Google Gears as a useful piece of<br>this platform, especially when offering local use of popular online<br>tools. Off the top of my head, MediaWiki, MindMeister, I copy Ben<br>Lisbakken, a gears maintainer, who reports that there is a Gears patch<br>
to make it work without extension support...</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
</div></div><br><br>-FFM