Activities/Browse

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Where to get Browse

Browse is a part of the Fructose, the set of demonstration activities, and therefore included as part of the standard Sucrose distribution.

Activity | Source | Source tarball| OLPC:Browse |

Browse Activity Manual

Tickets in Trac: Sugar Labs | OLPC |

user tip

When downloading, .xos for example, you have to click 'ok' on the download status alert to view the status of a new download. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFU88Fve6qk

i18n

(See our Pootle server for details about how to translate Browse into your language.)

Background

still to come

Release notes

0.86/Browse transcluded:

0.86/Browse

Introduction

The Browse activity is based on XULRunner the Mozilla runtime package. It does provide the user with nearly the same functionality that Firfox offers but tries to be clear and simple UI wise given the target audience. It also offers collaboration as one of it's main features.

More Info: Activities/Browse

What is new for users

Right click palettes have been improved with clearer text and icons. Keeping a file to the Journal now uses its file name as the Journal entry (the full download URL is placed in the description metadata), and uploading files to web servers also now uses the title, along with MIME logic for deciding a file extension (if no valid extension is provided in the title).

Right click palettes have been improved for clearer easier use.

What is new for developers

No News.

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

The 0.86 version has no backwards compatibility, since it depends on the 0.86 platform (hulahop).

Detailed changes

• Latest translations
• Better naming when uploading an entry #901 (Aleksey Lim)
• Listen for mouseout event to popdown palette #1314
• Able to download Data URIs #1029 (Lucian Branescu)
• Don't choke on Lang=C #979
• Object chooser remains shown after activity has been closed #1192
• Refine image and link right click palette #815
  • image: 'Keep image', Copy 'image'
  • link: 'Keep link', Copy link', Follow link'
• Features/New Toolbar Design - Adopt to the new activity toolbar design
• Features/Tabs In Browse - New pages will open in a new tab similarly to other browsers (though this feature isn't proposing any way for the user to explicitly open any link in a new tab).
• Put the download url in the description field of the metadata

Credits

Tomeu Vizoso, Simon Schampijer, Aleksey Lim, Lucian Branescu

Release notes

0.84

0.84/Browse transcluded:

0.84/Browse

Introduction

The Browse activity is based on XULRunner the Mozilla runtime package. It does provide the user with nearly the same functionality that Firefox offers but tries to be clear and simple UI wise given the target audience. It also offers collaboration as one of it's main features.

More Info: Activities/Browse

What is new for users

Tomeu Vizoso added new options to the palette. When you click on a link you have the option to download it.

The palette offers also an option to download an image, for reuse with your favorite image processing activity. Just click on the image you want to download and access it from the Journal.

Martin Langhoff has been adding functionality to authenticate with the Schoolserver. When registered with the server an HTTP Cookie is created to ease the use of services on the Schoolserver in future sessions.

Thanks to Daniel Drake Browse propagates the current locale now. This helps to use web services and pages in your mother language. Try it out with the addons page for example.

What is new for developers

No News

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Compatibility

This version is dependant on Hulahop > 0.4.7.

Detailed changes

100

• Add a "Download image" option to the image palette (tomeu)
• Add a "Download link" option to the link palette (tomeu)
• Get downloads and upload alerts for multiple windows to work (marco)
• Handle download names with non-ascii characters (tomeu) #8857

101

• Return the document source to the shell for displaying in the view source dialog. This is used by the new source view code to display the document source.

102

• Updates in the Slovenian language

103

• Use cjson instead of json (nirbheek)
• New translations

104

• Create a HTTP Cookie to authenticate with the Schoolserver (Martin Langhoff)
• Deprecation fix: Use bundle_id instead od service_name
• Set intl.accept_languages based on the locale (Daniel Drake)
• New translations

105

• New translations

Credits

Marco Pesenti Gritti, Daniel Drake, Martin Langhoff, Tomeu Vizoso, Nirbheek Chauhan and Simon Schampijer