2009/5/16 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>: > 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. >
I guess we love python too much.... Cross-platform with correct widgets toolkit it will look native on all platforms. > 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! Launchpad defaults to https: openID that indeed doesn't work on SourceForge http://launchpad.net/~you does work on SourceForge ;-) > > 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? > Well that's the strange thing that a lot of them do ask you to "associate" or "create" local account. But nonetheless openId is the other method to login. > Jonathan -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
