Am 16.05.2009 um 21:57 schrieb Jonathan Marsden:
I'm wondering whether it might end up being simpler to create a Python
(or whatever your chosen portable scripting language is) GUI wrapper
for
the SWORD utilities, that people run locally on their own machine,
rather than a web UI for a central server?
Login authentication already
exists on the user's machine, there is no need to move possibly large
files back and forth, no worries about whose files they are, multiple
users at once are handled by the users OS (on multi-user OSes only, of
course), etc.
Well, I know, a local application would mean much less trouble. And in
most cases I'd prefer a local over a web application if it makes sense.
If I create such a GUI wrapper for Mac I'll create it in Cocoa (or
maybe even integrate it into MacSword) which doesn't run anywhere else
and it would be of no benefit for anyone else except for Mac users.
Web applications and web services are much more common nowadays and we
- operating over the internet mostly - having such services hosted
makes sense to me.
More opinions?
Manfred
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
OpenId is quite neat. ...
It is, but (unless something changed in the last few months) it has
one
drawback that is hindering its usefulness: for it to work well, you
need
to trust that the security of each OpenID provider you accept is
solid.
And in the security world, the default is that no-one trusts anyone
else!
So what is happening is that everyone is an OpenID provider, and
everyone accepts their own provider as being sufficiently secure... so
it looks like their site is trendy and accepts OpenID. However, many
places do not accept other providers. Or did not, when I tried it!
At least last time I tried this, an OpenID created on LaunchPad was
not
accepted by SourceForge, for example. Because of this, I just gave up
and continue to remember and use about 50+ passwords!
Hmmm, I just tried again, and after a couple of odd things happening
(like being asked to associate my OpenID with my SF account, doing so,
and getting sent to a blank web page!), it now seems to be working :)
So maybe things really are improving, or I just had back luck the
first
time I tried out OpenID?
Jonathan
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