Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:20:34 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas? Message-ID: <199612021420.IAA18698@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <27053.849528306@time.cdrom.com> References: <199612020255.NAA02673@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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In article <27053.849528306@time.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: >However, I think all of this misses a something important fact here >(and we get to this stage *every time* the subject comes up :-) which >is that the Universal GUI Paradigm already sort of exists, and it's >called HTML. Dave, fetch a bucket please, they're gagging again and >it's breaking my concentration. I'm not gagging. I like this idea... except for one thing... Every time someone does an HTML interface, they then go and look at "now how do we do authentication over HTTP so I can use this for system administration without giving crackers a user-friendly doorkey?". Remember the hole in SATAN/SANTA 1.0? Now I don't have the dox handy, but when I set up lynx for our BBS at work I recall that it had hooks for you to run commands locally... sort of less than plugins, more than CGI, and done in the browser. If you restrict it to use file: URLs only you can avoid the authentication question completely and still have a decent character-based UI. The only question comes... is there an X-based browser that's sufficiently good, easily enough expanded to grok the lynx tags, and the source is available without Motif? Well... there's Arena...
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