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av-98 and vf-1 daydream | |
September 18th, 2019 | |
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This is mostly directed at solderpunk. | |
I was thinking on AV-98 and VF-1 and how they're so wonderfully | |
similar. It would be so neat to have a single client that could | |
browse gopher & gemini protocols seemlessly, and they're kinda the | |
perfect place to start that thought. | |
But then I was thinking, "Oh, it would be terrible to start your | |
journey thinking you're on Gemini and safely using TLS only to | |
move into Gopher without realizing it and be unprotected." But if | |
there was a way to differentiate between the modes, sort of like | |
"battle mode" that visually indicated you were TLS protected, then | |
things would be better. | |
I thought about the way I've got my vim status bar configured to | |
change color when I'm in insert vs normal modes and thought about | |
that in VF1. One color for "secure" one color for "unsecure". | |
That'd be neat, right? And what about onion addresses? VF-1 works | |
quite well over tor, and onion addresses provide end-to-end | |
encryption. So they could be safely grouped in the "secure" block, | |
or maybe get a third color. | |
And that's great for knowing where you are, but not where you're | |
going. Colorizing links with matching colors would help indicate | |
your options. | |
But then again, not everybody like colors, so maybe a prefix on | |
links or the bar like an "@" or a "!" or something? Or maybe | |
that's a configuration option. | |
Anyway, it's a whole bunch of thoughts about somebody elses code | |
and clients and not my place at all to direct, but I thought I'd | |
share my thinking in case it inspires anything in you. | |
Cheers! |