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Touch-oriented apps: A developer's guide ( - Software ) - 2 views

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shared by David Corking on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • asynchronous operations
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 10 Nov 11
       
      Etoys is quite smooth as it is, but I wonder if it is practical to have Etoys spawn extra threads so that interfaces users create work smoothly even when they build a demanding application.
  • he HTML5 specification also inherently includes touch and multitouch capabilities, says Huckaby. The jQuery Mobile Web framework supports touch events in JavaScript-using websites via an API.
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Sugar Labs-learning software for children - 0 views

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shared by David Corking on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Originally developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most computers.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 23 Mar 09
       
      I am delighted that the fantastic Sugar project is available to countries that don't have the top-down education system that is necessary to buy the XO.
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[Grassroots-l] [support-gang] Change the World (FAST!) - 1 views

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shared by David Corking on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • > He needed (would still appreciate it) 30 XOs for one primary school class, > calculated everything using prices from G1G1. This is a good example, thank you... I will follow up off list; but you are right, this is the sort of project we are not supporting outside of G1G1.
  • David Corking on 20 Mar 09
     
    By not supporting medium-sized deployments of, say 30 to 5000 laptops (a typical order from a school or a county-level authority) the OLPC Foundation betrays an instinct for paternalism. We have too much paternalism in education already, and the technologies in Sugar were designed to give children democratic access to education.
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