Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote: > 4. The Mozilla Foundation wants an anti phishing tool that will most > likely only be noticed when you turn your monitor up side down i.e. in > the status bar instead of the location bar!
If Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla developers could change the world opinion, the location bar would be where all the security indicators would show up and it would be impossible to hide by web pages. That was actually tried. But the web developers (you know, the people that design the pages that other people then view in browsers) cried so loudly that the decision had to be reversed. The only thing so far that they grudgingly accept is a status bar and title bar that can't be controlled by the web pages. So that is why the status bar and title bar are the only places where security indicators can go and be available even if the site tries to muck with things. We'd love to change this, of course. Now go convince all the web developers out there, and once you've done that, we'll flip the switch again. -- Heikki Toivonen _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
