[Sugar-devel] HTML 5 chapters for "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"

[Sai Vineet]

Hi,

Yes we need a Web Activity chapter. But a whole book would be probably
nicer, since the whole method of development changes in Web Activities. Do
we have docs for sugar-web? I haven't found any ... I think we should make
a new book on Web Activities.

Also I would like to say that editing books on FLOSS manuals is a pain. I
tried doing it during GCI, but it didn't work in Chrome, and worked
sometimes in Firefox but mostly not. I think that may be the reason for
people not contributing much. It would be better if it's shifted somewhere
else, maybe something like developer.sugarlabs.org?

Regards,
Vineet.


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:15 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> During the 2012 Google code-in Lionel wrote a nice chapter for MYOSA on
> making Activities using HTML 5 and WebKit. I have been slowly and steadily
> updating the other chapters in the book to use Sugar 3 and GTK 3. I have
> not updated the website with the latest changes because I don't want the
> book to be in a half-done state, but I have been making steady progress.
>
> One thing I have noticed from lurking on this mailing list is that HTML 5
> and Sugar have made a lot of progress since that chapter was written. I get
> the impression that what is written there may already be obsolete. I also
> feel that I'm not the guy who can fix that. I did a fair amount of Activity
> development before writing MYOSA but I've drifted away from it since then.
>
> I believe that HTML 5 is going to be a big deal for Sugar and that MYOSA
> needs to have some new or updated chapters to reflect that. I am hoping
> that some of you might contribute this content.
>
> As for my own updates, some of them might be published in a couple of
> weeks.
>

Nice!


> Working on this book has been a rewarding experience for me. I consider it
> part of my own Constructionist education. Since finishing it I have been
> involved in writing or publishing many other books. I have transcribed
> books for Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Canada. I have scanned a
> bunch of books for the Internet Archive, using a scanner I designed and
> built myself. I updated a memoir of my days among the Hare Krishnas that
> had been on a shelf for 30 years and published it, getting five star
> reviews on Amazon. I have formatted for publishing a twelve volume
> illustrated English edition of *The Mahabharata*, the great epic of
> India. I have written a science fiction novel and am working on a second
> one.
>
> I am not suggesting that contributing HTML 5 chapters to this book will
> change your life. However, it definitely changed mine.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
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