Re: Novice/casual development tools
 

Is there a usable port available for the ITs? I had heard that something was cooking but did it ever come to fruition?

(I do not think that Squeak is what I am looking for - if it was then the OLPC folks would have used Squeak instead of Python as its main implementation language. I read somewhere that Alan Kay approved the decision to use Python as the main OLPC implementation language.)

Re: Novice/casual development tools
 

Following up on fpp's suggestion of making a personal web application I think I am going to try to get Karrigell[*] running on a 770.

However, I remember reading somewhere that the 770 Opera browser's support for Javascript was limited. Is this true?

If so, is there a spec for what it can/cannot do?
[*] http://karrigell.sourceforge.net/

Re: Novice/casual development tools
 

I and others have compiled the Squeak VM for the IT and it works fine. However that's about as far as anyone seems to have gone except for a few individuals who have worked solely within Squeak to overcome the most immediate problems (namely RMB and text input issues). I hope sometime to look in detail at hildon-ising the VM *and* at what mods can be made to a Squeak image to make it more IT-friendly.

I don't know the reasons for the choices made by OLPC but I suspect they were the most practical for achieving their objects. Maybe the number of developers and/or popularity were major factors in which case the decision to use Python was a good one IMHO. In fact I plan to use Python myself to investigate the various API's before attempting any Squeak VM integration. For me at least there is no "Python vs Squeak" issue (if anything it would be "Python vs Smalltalk") because the comparison would be ignoring Squeaks strong points such as Morphic and EToys (note there *is* EToys (ie, Squeak) for Sugar).

Re: Novice/casual development tools
 

You can use too python onboard with PyGTKEditor , a small text editor for python source code for maemo :)