[Sugar-devel] Gears and random thoughts

[Chris Leonard]

Is there a way to add them to ASLO and to tag them as such?

Can they be localized on Pootle?

Does localizing htem introduce a CLDR locale dependency?

cjl

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Suraj K S <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brilliant work Manuel!
>
> Would be nice if we could put all the web activities we've made so far,
> together in one place.
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> On 9 August 2013 19:45, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've made an activity out of gearsket.ch .  This is a present for our
>> friend Paul Fox, who pointed me to that excellent app.  Thanks Paul!
>>
>> http://manuq.github.io/gears-activity/
>>
>> I contacted the developer and started sending pull-requests to make
>> GearSketch a lib we could use, and I've been also improving the icons.
>>
>> It works great in a touchable device.  For touch support it uses
>> hammer.js .  So this is another option to handle for globally adding
>> touch in sugar-web.  In previous email I've mentioned pointer.js,
>> which abstracts input events (mouse, touchscreen, pen tablet) like
>> latest IE does.
>>
>> The help inside the app is great.  It brings a demo mode, which
>> directly shows you what can be done.  It is similar to the one found
>> in Implode activity.  I wish we can do that as a global solution for
>> help in web activities.
>>
>> It is written in coffeescript, and after playing for a bit, I can see
>> it as a possible choice for activity developers.  Its syntax sugar
>> makes the code look more like the gtk activities written in python.
>>
>> One of the reasons we went for plain js for sugar-web was because of
>> the View Source feature.  Well, seems that since I researched a few
>> months ago, Source Maps has improved a lot, and I can see coffee code
>> in the web inspector. If the code breaks or if I add a breakpoint, for
>> example.  Nice!  Also, GitHub does a nice job displaying only the
>> coffee changes, and hidding the JS changes by default:
>>
>> https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch/pull/6/files
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> .. manuq ..
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