<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Neil Van Dyke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil@neilvandyke.org" target="_blank">neil@neilvandyke.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Floyd Arguello wrote on 02/26/2015 05:58 PM:<span class=""><br>
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I like the idea of saving programs through a Google account,<br>
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That might be fine for particular users of this particular app... but, as a general comment, for people doing other Web-based apps, using "the cloud" in this way is actually a really bad direction for privacy in most cases.<br></blockquote><div><br>+1<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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(This is a serious and huge topic, which is mostly outside the scope of Racket, and I doubt any of us want to get into the topic here by building up from first principles. I just think that that kind of cloud use shouldn't be mentioned in an impressionability-heavy venue like this, without someone pointing out that it's not necessarily a good general approach.)<br>
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If anyone just wants quick&dirty storage for a Web app (online or offline), the easiest thing to consider first is "<a href="http://mozilla.github.io/localForage/" target="_blank">http://mozilla.github.io/<u></u>localForage/</a>". You can look at the implications from there, but it's one of the easiest and best starting points for most Web app casual storage purposes at the moment.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. Also, for a really nice solution to the authentication problem (how can I authenticate users without telling their providers?), you might want to take a look at Mozilla Persona: <br><br><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona</a><br></div><div> <br></div><div>John<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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