Gary,
Having just stumbled on Squeak's SSL stack, I have another piece of my MS escape plan, at least to the point of being able to do some serious porting and stress testing. At the mission-critical level, there is one fairly intense fat client (that is where your work is most relevant to my plans), and various server apps. The latter have run as desktop apps under Dolphin, but that is becoming a problem as we move (over my unilaterally[*] bruised body) to virtual machines in racks. My plan is to build SSL into Kom and end up with "out of the box" secure Seaside-based configuration. Settings can be persisted by simply saving the image.
Now the point (about time, I realize). The server apps will probably spend most of their lives in a headless configuration, but I will no doubt at times run them graphically to debug something. I have said this before, but I am becoming ever more convinced: using multiple host windows would be great, but we should also have the option of using system windows inside of one main Squeak window. I *think* the latter will be most useful for the debugging scenario above, but we should try not to lose the ability as we add the attractive idea of having browsers and debuggers floating around on an OS desktop.
Thanks for your contributions to Squeak!!
Bill
[*] It is not all bad. I fear the VMs are in use out of mainstreamism, and they will almost certainly go from quick to overloaded with time. Having them locked up with dedicated staff to make backups, etc. is a good thing, both because it needs to be formalized, and because *I* don't have to do it ;)
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