[Blocks-development] Alternative to ActiveX: TCP/IP! ^_^

[Spencer Jr., M. <sp...@ac...>]

This is for WAY down the road...but when we are ready to start making a
'pretty' GUI client...

Make it client/server!

It can still be just as secure and transparent:  only accept connections
from localhost, start and stop the daemon transparently when the GUI starts
and stops, etc.

I have all sorts of evil ideas for a GUI:  'select assistance level' just
like IBM's great text interfaces (no, I'm serious...I admire IBM's text
interfaces), pretty graphs for complex networks...

the reason a good GUI will be necessary is because this web-of-trust thing
will live and die on the decisions of the keyholders.  If all the
top-level-key holders go and get in a fight and stop cooperating, or people
with lots of network trust start getting gullible or stupid, the
web-of-trust loses its meaning.  Maybe we can help them make good decisions
with a GUI that helps illustrate the affect of their actions.  (That
is...the GUI will only remind them of this when they select a non-expert
assistance level.)

And the 'basic' assistance level should be as simple, idiot-proof, and
Napster-like (interface-wise) as possible.  :)

--Michael Spencer
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