SocialCalc
SocialCalc is a Javascript-based spreadsheet being developed as a Sugar activity by Dan Bricklin and Luke Closs for the XO, with help from SocialText among many others. See also notes on pyxpcom and other spreadsheets.
As of late February, 2008, SocialCalc implements all of the core spreadsheet functions.
Participants
Participants in the coding and discussion so far:
Recent updates
From a post by Luke to sugar on 2/22/2008:
Background: Socialcalc is a HTML/JS based spreadsheet engine that Dan has developed. He asked me to help him with sugar packaging, and integration with the journal and other XO specific features. The python/javascript integration necessary for this project may also be generally useful for other projects. I'm developing with this in mind. Summary of tonight's progress: I learned how to change the gecko security settings to allow a local HTML file access to XPCOM. This means that I can now easily pass messages between python and javascript. Next Steps With this spike done, I next need to spike to learn how saving and restoring data to/from the journal works, and then I can integrate this with pyxpcom to save and load data from the journal into javascript. With this in place, we should be almost ready to write the save/load feature for Socialcalc. Details of tonight's progress: ActiveState Komodo developer Todd Whiteman (pyxpcom expert) suggested I look into the nsIObserver xpcom interface as a way of passing messages back and forth between python and javascript. So this was my challenge for tonight.
