Re:OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
by jancsika on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:13PM
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I checked out a few youtube videos like this one[1].
Now I'm wondering whether the lack of smoothness was actually jank or just the choice to animate at a low frame rate.
The animation looks bad but generally uniform in its timing. So I'm guessing whoever coded that just assumed their method of animation was so klunky that they went ahead and set the delay interval to a large value.
It might have helped to use a retro-style step animation, like filling up a cup a quarter at a time where each 1/4 cup is a lighter shade of the same color.
There were no "office" applications for Sugar. The closest it got were Sugarized versions of Firefox and AbiWord. The animation, as I recall, was somewhat jankier when attempting to load one of these.