<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-17 3:10 GMT+02:00 Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br>I have concerns about the performance of sugar-web apps, especially on XO-1s. My understanding is that one of the main engineering concerns that OLPC Australia people had with Sugar was the delay in upgrading Browse to webkit2; from <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/issues/30#issuecomment-211269328" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/issues/30#issuecomment-211269328</a> I gather this is now completed.
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yash agreed to attempt to write an essential font editor widget (a glyph table) in both PyGTK3 and JS and then compare the experience, so we can make a decision based on his actual experience rather than a priori assumptions :) </div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px">Nice. Testing on the targeted machine is the key.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px">I've wrote several Sugar activities in JavaScript. The most sensitive was KA View [1] (shortly a video viewer for Khan Academy videos). Because the activity was written to be deployed on our Malagasy deployment (where we've got XO-1 laptops), it take me lot of time to ensure first that it make sense to run videos in a browser on the XO-1. </div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"> Lionel.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4770" target="_blank">activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4770</a></div></div></div>