Re: Comparison with other browsers

[Robert Marcano <robert marcanoonline com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:26, Jean-Fran�s Rameau wrote:
> Adam Hooper a �it :
> > Jean-Fran�s Rameau wrote:
> > 
> >> - a content filter / parental control (like white list/black list). My 
> >> 7 year old daughter uses Epiphany. Ok i know Dansguardian 
> >> (http://dansguardian.org/) but it is not really user-friendly :-).
> > 
> > 
> > In my opinion, this is beyond the scope of Epiphany. Imagine, if you 
> > will, a GNOME proxy server. Obviously the backend wouldn't have to be 
> > GNOME's itself -- it could use another project -- but the frontend would 
> > be easy to use and HIG-gy.
> 
> Yes. Epiphany <-> Dansguardian <-> Squid works fine at home. But a 
> little bit heavy to let a child surf on one or two sites ...

You can write a proxy autoconfig file that returns "DIRECT" for the
sites that you want, and return a non existent proxy at localhost for
any other site. Then you can lock the GNOME proxy settings using gconf
tools

> 
> > This would be more secure than blocking this kind of thing on a single 
> > browser, too, since it would apply to all GNOME apps.
> > 
> > Now we've just gotta find some sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hhacker who'll make a 
> > HIG proxy server frontend....
> >