- From: Samuel Santos <samaxes@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:17:27 +0000
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > > > I agree with Samuel in that this is an issue. In Catalunya, most often > > Spanish software is used (both OS and browsers), because a lot of the > > software is not easily (or at all) available in Catalan (specially > > Microsoft software, such as Windows and IE, which ammount for a quite > > big fraction of web surfers). Seeing Spanish stuff in pages that are > > supposed to be in Catalan is quite annoying (especially when keeping in > > mind some historic factors). > > > > I can understand that there may be some security concerns with this > > control; but I don't think changing the "Browse" caption poses any > > threat. But if there is so much paranoia on this, browsers could be > > allowed (or even required) to ask for confirmation when picking a file > > if the caption has been changed (something like "Are you sure you would > > like to submit C:\example.txt to example.com?" should be enough, and > > users would easily see such question as coming from the UA rather than > > from the webpage). > > It has been shown that prompts are ignored by users, so that wouldn't > really solve the problem. > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote: > > > > If changing the button text can be a security issue (e.g. induce the > > user to an action that he's not aware of), we can come up with some > > solutions. > > > > What about allowing the Author to change the control's locale? By doing > > so, the UA can then render the button with the same locale as the > > application without compromising the security. > > It seems like browsers should do this already based on the lang="" > attribute. I recommend asking browser vendors to implement this. @lang will definitively fix the problem if browsers are willing to implement it. > > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > > > I was going to suggest this, but I don't think it's really doable: > > browsers would need to include all the translations of that caption in > > all their versions. In the specific case of IE, considering that > > Microsoft tends to license only single-language versions of its products > > (if you want it in two languages, you need to pay twice), I'm afraid > > this would be an issue (despite the fact that IE is actually distributed > > for free, it would still mess with their "packaging"). > > It's true that this may not be something browsers want to implement. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Samuel Santos http://www.samaxes.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20081106/65c9774b/attachment.htm>
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