Am 17.05.2009 um 14:54 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs:
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.
There is no widget toolkit that really has a native look&feel on Mac
except Cocoa.
Well, there is RubyCocoa or PythonCocoa bridge but using that means it
is not cross-platform anymore.
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!
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
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