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

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Sep 7 00:14:50 CDT 2008


Toby Murray wrote:
 > > sockets are not reified in current user interfaces.
 > > That's not to suggest that they could not be,
 > > however, although it would be unconventional. Of
 > > course doing so may increase the complexity of the
 > > mental model that the user now must maintain in
 > > order to make safe designations.

 > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:08 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
 >> "may"? Do you seriously think there's any doubt that
 >> it will?

Toby Murray wrote:
 > I think there is room for doubt, despite intuition
 > saying that complexity would obviously increase, were
 > we to start reifying more (or different) things in the
 > user interface.

Obviously we don't want to reify sockets in the user
interface.

We do, however, want to reify yurls, which are what
sockets should connect to.  We should have smart
bookmarks and smart contacts.





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