Browse activity on the OLPC
In the spirit of "eat your own dogfood" I am trying to do as much as possible on my XO laptop. A laptop for children's learning should be "low entry, high ceiling and wide walls". That is, while providing an easy entry into computing, it should not have roadblocks to more complex tasks or uses which the designer never considered.
Here is today's roadblock on filling in a web form. Here is what I saw on a PC with Firefox 3.0.6
And on an XO with Browse V98, when selecting, no scroll bars:
And after moving to the next item, the selection unselects:
I am not sure if Browse supports JavaScript at all.
Here is part of the offending code, (html brackets changed to {})
{link rel="stylesheet" href="../fso.css"}
{style type="text/css"}
{!--
td {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ; font-size: 10pt; color: #090707}
--}
{/style}
{script language="JavaScript"}
...
{tr}
{td colspan="1"}
{select name="Q136383" SIZE="3" }
{option}Yes{/option}
{option}No{/option}
{option}Not applicable{/option}
{/select}
{/td}
{/tr}
Here is today's roadblock on filling in a web form. Here is what I saw on a PC with Firefox 3.0.6
And on an XO with Browse V98, when selecting, no scroll bars:
And after moving to the next item, the selection unselects:
I am not sure if Browse supports JavaScript at all.
Here is part of the offending code, (html brackets changed to {})
{link rel="stylesheet" href="../fso.css"}
{style type="text/css"}
{!--
td {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ; font-size: 10pt; color: #090707}
--}
{/style}
{script language="JavaScript"}
...
{tr}
{td colspan="1"}
{select name="Q136383" SIZE="3" }
{option}Yes{/option}
{option}No{/option}
{option}Not applicable{/option}
{/select}
{/td}
{/tr}
