(another) WebKit port of Browse

Carol Lerche cafl at msbit.com
Mon Jul 7 18:20:39 EDT 2008


Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser?  Client
certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications
(assuming a properly configured server).

As to collaborative browsing, that use case should be balanced against all
the available applications that having a standard Firefox enables
painlessly.   Where is a user story of collaborative browsing (as contrasted
to a shared bookmark repository) documented?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > I'd rather see us just give up on Browse and ship and appropriately
> > configured Firefox.  I just can't see OLPC devoting enough developer
>
> Not so fast! The XS deliverables need a custom browser on the XO for
> reasons we were discussing last Thursday :-)
>
> If we want
>
>  - automagic authentication with the XS
>  - collaborative browsing (which can get better than what we have)
>
> we need a custom, bespoke, forked, evil, lasers-on-sharkies-heads
> browser. Call it Betty if you want, but we need it.
>
>
>
>
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