[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [laptop.org #63512] OX on the Internet [Dan Healy]

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 18:34, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> This forwarded message explains what I am looking for.  It was sent to
> help at laptop.org and they suggested I send it to this mail list.
>
> Any ideas, thoughts, or help would be appreciated.
>
> Dan H.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <help at laptop.org>
> Date: Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM
> Subject: [laptop.org #63512] OX on the Internet [Dan Healy]
> To: dfhealy at gmail.com
>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Please contact the following mailing lists with your questions about the
> Sugar Learning Platform used on OLPC's XO Laptops:
>
>  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
> Thanks!
> --Adam Holt
>
> On Sat Jun 12 14:36:51 2010, dfhealy at gmail.com wrote:
>> I have developed a browser based learning system application.  It has both
>> author and student functions.  I can connect to the student function
> and it
>> works -- almost.  When a student makes an error a pop-up window gives an
>> explanation.  When that occurs on the OX the pop-up takes up the entire
>> window and there is no way to close it.
>>
>> Some of the buttons don't work on the OX that do work on IE and
> Firefox.  I
>> would like this application to work on the OX out of the box with no
>> customization.

If you really cannot change the web app, then an alternative would be
to clone the Browse activity and modify it so popups open in the way
you want. Then you would distribute the resulting activity pointing by
default to some server.

But I would recommend just stop using popups.

Regards,

Tomeu

>> On the keyboard there are special characters for languages other than
>> English.  How do I get them to work?
>>
>> Is there an online source for the workings of the OX?  I would be glad
> to go
>> there and check that out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan H.
>
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