[sugar] Porting apps, which ones?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Am 20.10.2006 um 13:43 schrieb Ivan Krsti?:
> 
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> I was thinking that maybe an email activity would be very nice to have.
>>> Clean and simple, this is for kids, remember. My own kids are
>>> overwhelmed by something like Thunderbird. Also, later an integration
>>> with the other stuff (journal, clipboard, etc) would be needed.
>>
>> This is planned; we have an (unofficial) document looking at existing
>> mail clients and the features we'd want to provide:
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/jrus/email-spec;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=email-spec.text 
>>
>>
>> However, Nicholas is opposed to rolling our own mail app for rev1, since
>> there are a bunch of open infrastructure questions that we ideally
>> wouldn't have to deal with until rev2. So for the time being, it's
>> assumed we're going with GMail for e-mail in rev1.
> 
> Oh, Google will like a couple millions new users a lot I guess.
> 
> Did anybody try, though? GMail is AJAX, isn't it? Is it usable?
> 
> - Bert -

I just tried it on a board.  It's not the fastest thing in the world, 
but it's certainly usable.  The standard HTML and mobile interfaces work 
really well.

--Chris