[Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

[James Simmons]

Edward,

Since the Read Activity uses WebKit for reading EPUBs it seems likely that
you could make an EPUB with JavaScript in it and make a sort of electronic
pop-up book out of it.  It might not be a strictly kosher EPUB, but Read
probably wouldn't care.

Maybe this could be something else to look at.  You could make a packaging
utility that takes an HTML file and any subdirectories beneath it and
packages it as either a Sugar Activity or an EPUB.  The utility could be
written in Python and PyGTK so you could run it on any OS, and maybe it
could run as a Sugar Activity as well.

James Simmons

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <
mokurai at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, March 22, 2013 10:29 am, James Simmons wrote:
> > Lionel,
> >
> > I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC.  I like the work you've
> > done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list
> > recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML 5
> Activity
> > and maybe this task could involve looking at several of these options.
> >
> > I definitely like the idea of having a sort of Phone Gap for Sugar where
> > you could package up HTML 5 as an Activity without writing Python code.
>
> Would there be a way to integrate HTML 5 with existing Sugar
> activities? This would help greatly in our Replacing Textbooks
> program, so that we could integrate Sugar into a curriculum and all of
> its learning materials.
>
> > James Simmons
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:16 AM, <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> I’m thinking to do a proposal for GSoC around “Sugar Framework for
> >> writing
> >> activity in full HTML5/JavaScript”.****
> >>
> >> My idea is to package and enhance the work I’ve done on [1],
> >> specifically
> >> to fully avoid the need to write any Python code.****
> >>
> >> I’ve got experience of student mentoring but never on GSoC
> >> mentoring.****
> >>
> >> Plus I’m not fully aware of Sugar internal and about the capacity to
> >> build
> >> something like a new sort of activity packaging.****
> >>
> >> So, if you think that it could be a good GSoC subject for Sugar and if
> >> someone is okay to co-mentoring with me, I could do a proposal.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Tell me.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Best regards from France.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >>                 Lionel.
>
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