[IAEP] [Sur] Teachers ask programmers / Maestros preguntan a Programadores

[David Corking]

Etoys is already deployed as a web app. (Unfortunately it lost the
plugin wars, so there only a few hundred apps - aka projects - out on
the web, and it is hard to recruit new users. Carlos himself uploaded
33, which, in my opinion, are just as easy to use as the
circle-the-cat game. )

XO owners can also store Etoys apps on their own laptop, and share
them over the mesh without access to a web server.

I think it is imperative that one day Sugar also offers a way for
students and teachers to store, modify and share HTML5 web apps, if it
doesn't already. The Browse, Opera and Firefox activities already
offer much of this.

I can't say where that should fall in the priorities of the
deployments or the wider community, but I am glad to hear that some
are thinking about it. I think that OLE Nepal switched from Etoys to
web apps in 2009, and thanks to this discussion, I just read this
article that Bryan Berry wrote back then which addresses Carlos's
question more directly:

http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/nepal/javascript_html5_educational_software.html

I hope that helps.