At 11:54 AM -0700 2/6/02, John H. Jenkins wrote:
>Right, but right now is that people are typing things like www.whitehouse. >com instead of www.whitehouse.gov (or, for that matter, >www.unicode.com). How likely is it that someone will accidentally >type www.s?mple.com instead of www.sample.com? > Somebody could easily follow a link to such a site, possibly through a pop-up or some spyware installed on their system, and never realize they weren't at the actual site. Security and spoofing are very real issues that were never, as far as I know, even considered in the design of Unicode. It's unclear whether or not the problem can be fixed now. The Unicode community has been in serious denial about this for some time. That other technologies also have or contribute to these problems in no way absolves Unicode of its problems. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
