[Sugar-devel] thoughts on embedding web activities

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi Erik,

we are going to meet during FOSDEM with Gnash's Rob Savoye and I'll
have present these questions and suggestions.

Will report back.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 19:52, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:
> I've some follow up thoughts and questions after reading this post from
> Tomeu regarding how to best empower web developers and embed gnash/flash.
>
> http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/01/embedding-mozilla.html
>
> What is the best implementation and interface for javascript to talk to
> activity subclasses?
>
> In the past I have created web server instances within my activities.  One
> of the main benefits of this approach was that javascript authors could work
> in a way familiar to them (ajax calls, comet calls, etc. that talk to a
> server).  The hope was to take advantage of as many existing javascript
> libraries as possible.
> Others approaches?  Benefits?  Drawbacks?
>
> Regardless of implementation, what would a standard interface from
> javascript to activity look like?  Function-call and primitives as
> variables?  What would this API need?
> Regarding embedding gnash/flash, I would advocate javascript as the pathway
> from as2/as3 calls to the activity so that the javascript serves as a
> foundation for other plugins.
>
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