I'm a strong believer that all one's personal financial data should be housed on his/her local machine. Hence a fat client to do all the manipulation to the data. As this thing evolves, I wouldn't mind seeing what could be done to "hook it up" to financial institutions like they do with Quicken and Money. They probably use a licensed protocle that would require a fee or something but that would be a long ways from what I'm starting with. But if this thing were really gonna take off, that sure would be worth looking into. I have always felt that communication between software applications and other "servers" should always be open and public! I typically hate proprietary interfaces and protocoles. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > This is a very interesting question. > > I think you're right about the overhead. But that's only true if each user > needs to maintain their own. > > Far more interesting to me would be an application which would let me keep > my own data, but also interact with my bank. In several passes at looking > at banking services online it has become obvious to me that there aren't > really that many applications out there--maybe half a dozen. The banks > install these and then tailor their content to reflect themselves--their > logos, etc. > > What I would really like to see is a proxy service that can be trusted > both by banks and by blind consumers. I think there's currently room for > this kind of creativity in services to blind and otherwise visually > impaired consumers. Think of it as sort of like a BankShare. I'm punning > on Jim Fruchterman's BookShare, of course, which has the blessing of the > Association of American Publishers. I would think an arrangement like that > could be made with the bankers as well. > > > > On Wed, > 3 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > I'm thinking about writing a personal checkbook program for Linux. What > > I'm curious about is what kind of interface would be most appropriate for > > a bunch of blind people out there like myself. I'm leaning towards a > > curses style interface - mainly for the check register but using a web > > browser for the front end sounds interesting too. The only bad thing about > > a web based application is that's a lot of overhead for a single user > > environment - CGI scripts, Apache and all that. What do you all think? > > > > If I go the curses route, I would be interested in some good jump start > > instruction to get the most out of it. Some of the examples I've seen so > > far kinda overwelme me since I've been used to hand-holders such as Visual > > Basic:). Where might one find some good curses training/instruction? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >
