[sugar] embedding mozilla into an activity

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:27 -0400, Erik Blankinship wrote:
> 
>         >         > Is there an example of embedding the mozilla
>         rendering
>         >         engine into a 
>         >         > sugar activity?
>         >         >
>         >
>         >         sugar/tests/test-browser.py
>         >
>         >         What are you doing with it?
>         >
>         >         Marco
>         >
>         >
>         > I am wondering if it might be easier to design layouts for
>         activities 
>         > with html and css (instead of pycairo), but want to ensure I
>         will be
>         > able to inter-operate with sugar completely ( e.g., drag and
>         drop).
>         
>         That sounds like a bad idea. We are going to build controls
>         that will 
>         make it easy to get the the visual appearance and the
>         interaction
>         specified in the HIG. Throwing another graphic system in the
>         game is
>         just going to cause duplication, inconsistencies and
>         confusion.
> 
> 
> Perhaps there is a different approach to this...  can I run a local
> http server on the xo that can function as a cgi and kids can interact
> with the html it produces through the browser activity?  What would
> the path to that server be?  It is possible that the local library
> activity might benefit from such a server to augment/complement the
> static html. 
> 

I think someone was actually developing or planning to develop one. Ivan
or sj will know.

> Regardless of how this might be implemented, for the custom rendering
> of certain components (that lie outside of the HIG (e.g., a
> videogame)), using javascript & canvas & html might reduce many
> developers' time.  Also, for applications that are going to run on
> both the xo locally and the school server, being able to use the same
> rendering engine might be helpful (maintaining a consistent look and
> feel across all platforms). 
> 

Sure, there are cases where using html make sense.

Marco