On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
I just hit a short entry on the One Laptop Per Child's interface, and it's chat program. It uses Zeroconf and SVG!
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Aside from other things, it might be very interesting to get interoperable with that. Perhaps even add that as a "target platform" for Inkscape drawing, etc. like SVG Tiny...
Plus there's mention of a custom protocol. hmmm.....
I don't think it is really practical. It looks like the way things work is that a message is sent as an SVG instead of text. So, basically, the entire chat is a set of SVG files in the same way a standard chat is a set of text files. But, that doesn't really work well in Inkscape's view of files.
I was looking to see if Inkscape would run on these, but the only have 112MB of usable RAM, I think we'd have to significantly focus on memory footprint reduction to make it in there.
--Ted