[Sugar-devel] How to deploy the webactivity libraries

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 29 May 2013 16:46, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> In other words, I imagine that for activities that meet a certain
>> level of complexity/functionality, there will commonly be some point
>> at which they cross the line and start depending something specific in
>> the underlying system, which breaks any dreams of self contained
>> activities. If I'm right, maybe we should consider dropping that as a
>> realistic possibility for a reliable experience.
>>
>
> I don't think because an activity won't work on all platforms and all
> versions we should give up on making it work on as many as possible. The
> Javascript ecosystem has always showed adaptability to all kind of web
> platform incompatibilities, often at a much lower level than a webcam API.
> There are several ways to deal with the incompatibilities, bundling
> libraries being one of the tools available.
>
> IMO making activities more cross platform that they are currently is one
> of the main reason to go for an HTML toolkit. I think it should be a goal
> for every activity to work in a plain web browser, even if with reduced
> functionality.
>
>
I agree we should point to do the activities so standard as possible, and
allow the use on a browser.
In fact will be a useful debugging tool for developers.
I don't know how the use of the "activity://" protocol affect that...

Gonzalo


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