This doesn't help that much with school districts ...
Cheers,
Alan
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At 09:47 AM 1/27/2007, Brad Fuller wrote:
Milan Zimmermann wrote:
On 2007 January 26 09:19, Alan Kay wrote:
Hi Milan --
At 11:07 PM 1/25/2007, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the article, very interesting. For the eventual delivery mechanism it would be a great "trojan horse" (in a good sense of course) if the plugin, when not yet installed, could install itself as 1-click on the page, without having to download and install an .exe or .rpm. (That is really not relevant to OLPC because it can come with the system there, but great for rest of browser users).
Unfortunately browsers don't work that way. If JS and DOM were as capable and fast as Squeak this would be easy. But the very reason we have to download an executable plugin to run Squeak/Etoys is that the capabilities of the browser are still lacking.
I was not really advocating not using Squeak I like it :) - just a no-separate-download/1-click install. I guess one way to achieve
1 click (or
no click) install of Squeak would be to make vendors ship Squeak with the browser like Java, but that's hard. I thougt there must be another way to achieve 1-click install, I wonder how Flash installs on Windows,
it seems to
install only with a click without separate download (if the plugin is not originally installed) but I do not know how it's achieved and whether same could be done for Squeak.
What would be helpful is that if squeak could get on lists like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/plugins/
-- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com
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