[sugar] testing websites and online-services that potential G1G1 buyers might be interested in

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 08:09:27 EST 2007


Most of the problem sites you cite are correlated to the presence of
codecs as opposed to any inherent problem with the browser itself.
What version of Gnash are you running? (There is a more recent one
that will be shipped with the G1G1 machines.) What version of the
browser itself? (There are many changes and improvements since 624.)
Did you load Watch&Listen, which is a dedicated media player and will
be on the G1G1 builds? Did you try downloading any of the proprietary
codecs, such as Adobe Flash or the Real codecs?

regards.

-walter

On Nov 11, 2007 1:33 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I spent the past hours testing various websites, online-services and
> activites that potential G1G1 buyers might be interested in with a B4
> with build 624. What started with my own curiosity about which things
> work and don't work at the moment turned into a 3 hour session and
> resulted in a lengthy story about the current state of things on my blog
> at http://christoph-d.blogspot.com/2007/11/saturday-night-fever.html
>
> Amongst other things I tried: Flickr (where the slideshows don't work),
> pbase (where slideshows do work), YouTube (where the videos don't work),
> Gmail (which works fine), Google Calender (which also works fine even
> though the browse activity crashed the first time that I wanted to use
> it), Google Docs (also works fine), Digg (worked as expected), several
> online radio-stations (couldn't get a single one to play back some
> music), listening to MP3s (worked fine even though I believe eToy
> shouldn't be the standard activity of choice, I'd rather see something
> dedicated to media playback), watching videos (see MP3s), reading large
> pdf files (worked exceptionally well, the screen and rotation feature
> really do make for a very pleasent reading experience) and looking at
> photos (colours look more washed out than I had expected).
>
> I thought some people could find that information useful in order to
> have a good understanding of the current state of things and to see
> where things still need to be improved!
>
> Have a great weekend,
> Christoph
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