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Re: A different approach to generating a GUIby dragonchild (Archbishop) |
on Dec 29, 2005 at 01:13 UTC ( [id://519692]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
If you can guarantee that:
As for security ... what avenues of attack do you foresee? The big question is "Do you have anything going over a wire?" If you don't (and loopback doesn't count), then you don't need https, which is good because it's a pain in the ass to implement and/or deploy. (There's a reason why Apache uses OpenSSL instead of writing its own.) As for using the browser as your GUI ... I wouldn't. Browsers right now suck ass as GUI environments. The only benefit they have is that a monkey can do something that looks okay. To get anything seriously good, you have to move out of the browser and into a real GUI environment like wxPerl or Tk. To me, the measure of a GUI environment is "Can you implement FreeCiv?" If you can't, then you're not a real GUI environment. Browsers are coming close, but they're not there yet. My criteria for good software:
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