[Sugar-devel] Hacking web activities on Windows/OS X

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/6/3 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
> I think sugar-web should always work in a plain web browser on any
> platform), even if with degraded functionality. Of course this limits what
> you can contribute to on Windows and OS X. But graphics for example is
> completely cross platform. And you can write an activity even if you running
> on a mock datastore implementation.

Yes I agree.  It should degrade gracefully.

> At some point we could also have a web server based implementation of the
> datastore API, which would allow people to write activities in a browser and
> then run them on sugar with local native datastore.

I was thinking about that possibility too.  It is certainly possible.

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> On 3 June 2013 13:28, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>> 2013/6/2 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > it seems like we could increase a lot the number of potential
>> > contributors
>> > by making it easy to hack on web activities and libraries on Windows and
>> > OS
>> > X. Not many people are running Linux and installing it is not the
>> > easiest
>> > task.
>> >
>> > I think this would involve
>> >
>> > 1 Document how to install volo and I suppose some kind of shell on
>> > Windows.
>> > 2 Document how to install volo on OS X.
>> > 3 Make sure sugar-web works in Firefox and/or Chrome.
>> >
>> > It shouldn't be much work and it seems like it could benefit the effort
>> > a
>> > lot.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I like the idea of expanding the developer systems.  But that will
>> involve implementing the shell services for those systems too?  Or I
>> am missing something?
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> Daniel Narvaez



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