[clue-tech] Note Software?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:45:13 -0600
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Yeah, I understand.  But you need something to build tools on.  No
> sense inventing a graphics toolkit for your notes application.

But I don't have to do that anyway. I can use GTK, Qt, or TK.

> In some cases the platform you build on is the browser.  It's like the 
> shell in some ways--a frame to building your apps in.  I'm not sure I'd 
> say bash does one thing and does it well.  Maybe it depends how complex 
> the one thing can be.

It's a different paradigm. With the shell, I specifically choose to
invoke the application. With the web, if I have JavaScript enabled in my
browser, I find websites using a search engine, or follow a link from
someplace, and land on a page I might not have ever visited. That page
has a completely unknown provenance, and if the site delivers a script to
run, I'm not able to examine it before it runs. Sure, there are ways to
deal with that, such as the NoScript plugin, but it's still an
architectural paradigm that I don't care for. Granted, I don't read the
source for every program I run. But it's a lot easier to trust the Ubuntu
repositories (or Fedora, etc.) than it is to trust whatever website I
happen to visit that wants to invoke a script.

jed