Dfalck --
No one has tried to get it on the One Laptop Per Child, but we agree
it is a great use case for Gears and we would love to make it happen.
However, we don't have a contact to get things started with. If you
know someone please let us know :)
-Ben
On Jan 19, 2:47 pm, dfalck <davi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried to get Gears running on the XO?
I need to do more research on this topic, but something like Google
Gears would be extremely useful on the small, inexpensive, Linux-based
machines like the XO (as in the One Laptop per Child project). Having
small-footprint browser-based applications running on the XO is great,
but adding offline support (especially modeless synchronization
support) would be beneficial to the target audience of the OLPC
project. For most of us, Gears is a huge productivity booster. For a
kid in the third world with spotty wi-fi, it would be an ideal
application of Gears to allow them to save everything locally and then
synchronize when they do have an internet connection available.
Just thinking out loud - I'm guessing the system requirements of Gears
and the browser(s) being used on the XO may not yet be ideal, but this
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