[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Much more standard and simpler than the xpi framework, I think.  Jetpacks
are html, javascript and css, expect you to use canvas and audio, with the
underlying jetpack packaged with jquery.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jetpack is not directly related. It is in fact very similar to
> Chrome's extension API.
>
> 2009/6/7 Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com>:
> > Also something new and related in Mozilla land:
> >
> > https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 7 Jun 2009, at 18:18, Lucian Branescu wrote:
> >>
> >> > 1. I don't really want to zip it if I can avoid it. If I do zip it and
> >> > get an .xo, how can I add it to the Journal programatically?
> >> > 2. I've changed that. All SSBs are subdomains to org.sugarlabs.ssb
> >> > (like org.sugarlabs.ssb.GMailActivity)
> >> >
> >> > 2009/6/7 Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com>:
> >> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Lucian
> >> >> Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> For my project, I will extend Browse with the ability to create
> >> >>> SSBs.
> >> >>> Read more here
> >> >>> http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/the-user-experience/
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I have made a small script that is triggered by a button in the
> >> >>> Browse
> >> >>> toolbar. It also works from Terminal.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Later on this script will do more things, but I'd like some feedback
> >> >>> about it as early as possible.
> >>
> >> Just wanted to flag an item that might be of interest to you on the
> >> 0.86 Browse roadmap "export for offline viewing (Web page - HTML only,
> >> Web page - Complete)":
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Browse
> >>
> >> I know this doesn't make a first class 'Activity' out of a page, but
> >> seems to have quite a feature overlap with your project. It would
> >> allow Browse to keep any page to the Journal so it can be resumed off-
> >> line and/or distributed to other users (via Journal entry sharing
> >> already in 0.84). It would also allow content providers an easy way to
> >> create and distribute more complicates/deep html/css/javascript/flash
> >> type rich web sites/pages by just zipping them up.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --Gary
> >>
> >> >> Hi Lucian,
> >> >>
> >> >> 2 things:
> >> >>
> >> >> 1) rainbow should prevent you from creating new activities in
> >> >> ~/Activities, so I don't think that approach would work on an XO with
> >> >> an OLPC build.  Since I think what you want is to create an activity,
> >> >> zip it, and add it to the journal, you could probably do something
> >> >> like this:
> >> >> import tempfile
> >> >> ssb_path = tempfile.mkdtmp(dir=activity.get_activity_root())
> >> >>
> >> >> 2) the bundle_id you create probably should begin with org.laptop ,
> >> >> as
> >> >> that could cause collisions with other activities.  maybe
> >> >> org.sugarlabs.ssb ?
> >> >>
> >> >> nice start so far!
> >> >>
> >> >> bobby
> >> >>
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