On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 02:45 +0200, Kai Engert wrote: > On 09.04.2010 00:41, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:59 -0700, Robert Relyea wrote: > >> The yellow larry is a good proposal, and probably implementable much > >> sooner than noisy warnings. > > > > I'm glad you like it. I guess the next thing needed is for someone to > > actually implement it, perhaps me if I can figure out how. > > I wrote about this 3 months ago: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535649#c3 > > Option (d) "invent a new notification" is the same as your proposal to > "show yellow". > > We'd have to do everything that I described there, related to (d), which > is more work than simply switching to "broken security" or "adding > console output". > > In short, security level detection and GUI display are done at different > layers of the software, so we'd have to add new signaling between layers.
I understand. > In addition, "color" should never be the only notification mechanism, > because some people are color blind. So, if your proposed change is to > "only" switch Larry to yellow, I believe it would be not sufficient. Users who cannot see hue may still notice the difference in brightness of the background compared to the text, at least on Linux where the blue background is dark. On Mac, I believe it is lighter. To help all users, even users who only get the text (e.g., using a screen reader), I propose to also add a question mark at the end of the text, e.g., "mattmccutchen.net ?" . -- Matt -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
