[cap-talk] Webkeys vs. the web

[Chip Morningstar]

"Stiegler, Marc D" <marc.d.stiegler at hp.com> wrote:

>> > This is more or less the approach I've been trying to follow, except 
>> > that the SCoopFS UI is done using Flash and I'd like to just use straight
>> > HTML+Javascript.  One advantage Flash has (I think) is that it has 
>> > authority to squirrel bits away persistently, which allows it to hold 
>> > onto capabilities across context switches.  I don't know if Alan was 
>> > making use of any such thing, though.
>> > 
>> The local waterken server provides the persistent storage for SCoopFS.
>
>Or, more generally, a waterken server (local or remote) provides persistent
>memory of where you left off. It provides this memory so reliably it is kinda
>hard to start anywhere other than where you left off. Regardless, neither
>alan's ui in flash nor my ui for the same system in javascript has ever had to
>worry about remembering something in the browser. Indeed, one of the amusing
>consequences of waterken is, you pick up where you left off even when you go
>to a new browser, as long as you take the bookmark with you :-)

You guys, always with the bookmarks.