On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
That would requrie a signed applet, with users having to click through scary warnings etc. not a good option.
Signing and scary warnings are mutually exclusive.
In any case people don't care for the most part, sadly. I accidentally put up a copy of cortado up that gave nasty java security warnings. Many tens of thousands of people used it without any complaints before I noticed and fixed it.
::Shrugs:: I do like the idea of a firefox plugin better. I think 'publish to commons' buttons would be handy in many other applications too (Gimp, Photoshop, Inkscape, etc)