What's the current status of Gears on the XO? Can it be added to Browser? I remember someone started working on it a few months ago, but unfortunately I don't know if they were successful.<br><br> The reason I'm asking is that GMail is currently rolling out offline support, although it's disabled by default at the moment: <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html" target="_blank">http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html</a><br>
<br> Regards,<br><br>/david<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Gabriel Eirea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geirea@gmail.com" target="_blank">geirea@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/1/30 Grant Bowman <<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com" target="_blank">grantbow@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div>> Thank you Caryl and Caroline for forwarding this (originally) from<br>
> olpc-sur (south) mail list. As the Spanish description of the<br>
> original email mentions, developers don't always know how they are<br>
> used in the classrooms. I'm curious from a Sugar development<br>
> perspective exactly how they are working with email in their class.<br>
> As the teacher says in the video, email is "fundamental."<br>
><br>
> Are they using a web based email client or something running locally?<br>
> The first girl who spoke said it's asynchronous and you don't have to<br>
> be connected. She may be talking about downloading from email,<br>
> working locally and then copying and pasting finished work to a<br>
> web-based email client but it doesn't sound like it to me.<br>
<br>
</div>That's exactly what I understood from their description. The teacher<br>
sends an email with an attachment. The children download it with gmail<br>
at the school and store the attachment in the Journal. Then they take<br>
it home, work on it, and when they return to school they send their<br>
work to the teacher using gmail again.<br>
<br>
An email activity with replication or however it is called (making a<br>
local copy of the emails and synchronizing automatically with the<br>
server whenever there is connectivity), would be very useful so they<br>
are not limited to attachments only.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
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Gabriel<br>
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