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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26
Ian Grigg (iang@systemics.com)
Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:13:42 -0400 (AST)
> >...Client is called WebFunds and is all-Java....
>
> ObCode: That pretty much means I won't use it. I use lynx; I have no
> intention of changing this. Other then that, as I said, it looks like a
> nice idea, but not allowing a text-only client of some kind is going to
> take some of the more hard-ass geeks such as myself out of the market,
> at least until the thing gets _huge_ acceptance, assuming it does.
You seem to be assuming that this is a browser affair? 'Fraid not.
Digital money systems need to store something on the disk, and they
need to do it securely. This rules out straight browsers, as they
have no easy access (you could do it with applets or plugins, of
course, but that depends on whether you can cram all the code into
them, and set up trust relationships and so forth).
WebFunds is a Java program that you download and get going. There
are other architectures coming, but for the moment, about the only
thing you could do with lynx is access the e-gold site, and that
would require the ssl version.
iang
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26