[Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas

[Daniel Ajoy]

> From: Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas
>
> Using Logo Wiki as a way to encourage people to download a plugin would
> be a mistake IMHO.  Putting all your code into a little dead box
> embedded on a web page is pretty lame, and it shows.  There's only two
> kinds of plugins that matter anymore: video (Quicktime, Windows Media,
> etc) and Flash.  And Flash is taking over video too.  Everything else is
> entirely dead (and good riddance!).  Plugins of various kinds have been
> done many, many times, and failed many, many times.  (There's even a
> Logo/Java plugin: http://turtletracks.sourceforge.net/)
>
> OTOH, if you really want fancy output, you want Flash pure and simple.
> I'm glad Logo Wiki is in Javascript and uses the canvas, but if they
> really want more control and graphical power then Flash is the obvious
> next step.
>

Here is a subset of Logo (The turtle graphics subset) in Spanish
implemented in Flash:

http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/LogoFlash.html

One of it's deficiencies is that the projects can't be really
stored from session to session. They vanish when the browser
window is closed.

Daniel