[etoys-dev] logging into showcase from etoys

[Timothy Falconer]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 08.09.2009, at 18:47, Timothy Falconer wrote:
>
>> Food for thought . . . I'm leaning towards the "create account"  
>> hyperlink now.
>
> Keeping as much on the server as possible seems advisable indeed.
>
> The "create account" button would require a way to open a URL in the  
> user's browser though. There is no such function in Etoys yet.
>
> We could ship the ScratchPlugin, it provides this IIRC. Including it  
> in Etoys and the Squeak VM has been on the todo list for a while  
> anyway:
>
> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-98
>
> Wouldn't work in Sugar though. Maybe the simplest would be a message  
> like "please go to squeakland.org and click '...' to create an  
> account."

What does Scratch do for their OLPC activity?

Tim