[Sugar-devel] Unified bundles

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:10 AM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> Wade,
>
> Since two of my Activities are referred to by name in your proposal I
> suppose I should have an opinion on it, but I don't fully understand the
> proposal.  It sounds like you want to mix content and Activity in the
> same bundle.  So I guess you could write some sort of presentation using
> HTML and JavaScript and bundle it up like an Activity that contains a
> pointer to the Browse component needed to use it?
>
> You mention that Activities like Read, Read Etexts, etc. don't create
> content, and thus are not like real Activities.  That is currently true,
> but lately I've been thinking of adding an Annotation feature to Read
> Etexts which would let the user attach notes to individual pages of the
> etext, as well as highlight passages with a yellow background (like
> marking up a book with a hi-lighter pen).  The notes and highlight
> coordinates would be stored in as a collection of objects which would be
> pickled and the pickle file would be stored in a Zip file along with the
> original etext.  So students assigned to read an etext could create
> their own content in the form of notes and highlights and share these
> with other students along with the text.
>
> Acrobat allows you to annotate PDFs so maybe Read could support this one
> day too.
>


I plan to implement something like this in Read over the next few
weeks. It would not be annotations - but bookmarks and notes
associated with them.

-sdg-



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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