Re: [Blocks-development] Doh!

[Benjamin M. B. <br...@kr...>]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Blat Froop wrote:
> 4) Authentication and Ratings
> 
>    Im quite interested in crypto, and a rating system is an
>    interesting idea. However, I dont want to increase the size
>    of File Adverts by including public keys, descriptions, and
>    so on. Now, if there were a seperate system (maybe even
>    web based) that Blocks could access information from
>    using the file ID (hash sent with ad) that would be a very
>    different story. Another possible future option would be
>    to seperate out the server code and build something like
>    a library (maybe even ActiveX control) to allow much more
>    complex custom front ends (you might have noticed they
>    arent really my speciality) that allow extended functionality.


Sorry for the 'dup' reply, but I did want to make another point. Assuming
you are shooting for cross-platform (or at least easy portability...) you
do NOT want to use ActiveX. It's not even available on the MacOS none the
less solaris/digital unix/linux/*bsd. This would be a 'bad career move'
for blocks / blocknet. Perhaps we can work something out without using
ActiveX.

One other thing to note: Although I have no idea how to do programming
with the fltk toolset, etc, I _would_ like to design a better GUI for
blocks/blocknet. If it is ok with the members on the list, I would like to
make a few drawings for a proposed GUI? I'll post them in

http://www.kripto.org/blocks/newgui/

I'll probably have them done tomorrow night sometime - I have another
10-hour shift at work, and paint shop pro is a good waste of time :)

-Benjamin M. Brewer
http://kripto.org
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