SAFE Network Dev Update - July 4, 2019

Using my laptop I can access the Figma mockups :tada: and am very impressed. Good ideas and a very understandable presentation.

WebID v SafeID

There’s one feature that doesn’t appear to follow conventions to maximise Solid compatibility, and I don’t think this has been discussed with the community - so am curious: what’s the proposed SafeID implementation, including naming, and what is Maidsafe’s approach to compatibility with Solid/WebID?

For clarity:

  • Safe ID appears to have the form @name
  • Figma mockup shows browser recognises this directly given a URL with the form safe://@name
  • a Solid ID / WebID is a URL with a fragment, and I don’t think URLs can contain ‘@’. So a SAFE WebID would be something like safe://id.happybeing#me

If we deviate from the latter, it makes it harder to provide compatibility with Solid apps and harder for people already familiar with WebIDs, so again I’m curious about @Maidsafe’s direction here.

I realise Solid compatibility is not the b-all and end all here, but would like to understand where @Maidsafe are headed.

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