[etoys-dev] logging into showcase from etoys

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 08.09.2009, at 20:41, Timothy Falconer wrote:

>
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> On 08.09.2009, at 18:47, Timothy Falconer wrote:
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>>> 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?


There is no official Scratch release for Sugar. They don't even save  
to the Journal yet.

- Bert -