[cap-talk] Google Chrome - web browser with sandboxed rendering

[Raoul Duke]

> In any case, we do not have to solve the email account autoconfiguration
> problem at the same time as trying to decide how to authorize access
> to an account by a mail user agent. It's probably impossible to do that
> while still being compatible with everyone's existing email set-ups.
> A dialog that looks like the configuration UI in existing user agents,
> as I suggested earlier in the thread, is fine. Making the configuration
> simpler is somebody else's longer-term problem.

a very good point. to separate out the concerns, and focus attention
where it is best (for a given person/group) to do so.



(i wonder if the following model has any validity: users have a
certain amount of energy. each less-than-easy thing drains some of
that energy. eventually they get to the point where they just want the
silly thing to Just Work and will cut corners however they can. if it
happens that security (a) takes a fair bit of energy unless they are
decently educated about it, and (bi) is one of the latter things, or
(bii) is not distinguished in the users mind as a separate sub-topic,
but is just another set of checkboxes in the overall morass of
checkboxes, then security might continue to get short shrift from
them. that should not stop anybody from trying to make the security
aspects easier. even if the ease doesn't get noticed as much as it
should because users are still frustrated with the overall computer
experience, every step forward is good.

my pet theory is that computers will ever and always be way too
complicated compared to how i'd really like them to be. all it takes
is five minutes with my parents-in-law to feel how bad things are to
the less computer literate. but perhaps the less computer literate is
a, pardon the expression, dying breed. and short of very 'walled
garden', or 1-use-only-appliance approaches
[http://tinyurl.com/5smhxm] i don't know of any very viable
simplifying solutions.)

sincerely.