Gervase Markham wrote:
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
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.
There is also the not-insignificant factor that IE has chosen the status
bar as their compulsory UI, and keeping security UI and window-size
compatibility with them is very useful.
Gerv
Funny... You may discover IE 7.0 changes that. They look at improved
secuirty indicators very seriously, and give us much more positive
responses than we ever got from the Mozilla security group (well, that
was zero, so it is easy to beat). In fact I'm not sure our decision to
implement TrustBar on FF was justified. Indeed, our next release of
TrustBar will also be for IE (very soon).
So, Mozilla plays `follow the leader`? Nice to know. Not exactly the
original goal of the project, was it?
BTW: the issue of placing the improved security indicator, on the top or
bottom, status bar, as a regular toolbar, or title bar, is really
secondary question in the design, and in fact I would argue that it is
best to have it as a user-controlled toolbar so user can place it
whereever she likes.
Best, Amir Herzberg
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