re: [Epiphany] 1.2 Plan (kiosk mode)

[<robert marcanoonline com>]

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:46, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
>> And of course, as soon as I send that message I remember some of the
>> other features I want to see for kiosk mode.
>>
>> 6) Restrict set of viewable URLs.  The decision of whether a URL is
>> viewable should be some list of blacklists and whitelists with some
>> sort of globbing/regexp or directory functionality.  This should
>> probably prevent viewing of said URLs both from the URL bar and from
>> hyperlinks.
>
> I disagree here. Restricting the UI so that the user can't hose the
> setup on the computer he's on it okay, but restricting _where_ he
> browses to it not: we should not enable or facilitate censorship.

Censorship is not always bad (remember that children browse the net too).
I think that epiphany must not implement any kind of url blocking, this
is the job of the proxy servers and the proxy server settings can be
locked using gconf
>
> Regards,
> 	Christian
>
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