On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 25 November 2015 at 06:29, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > It's about making it harder for them unintentionally to do so.
>
> So what is wrong with being able to check after the fact?
>
Nothing necessarily, but we would need to design an affordance for that,
as I don't believe there presently is one.
I have to say, this seems a lot like security shibboleth.
Oddly, that's how I feel about "don't let the application ask for what it
wants"
-Ekr
> You are
> right, that this sort of thing only prevents accidents, but correcting
> a mistake and preventing it are much the same here. I expect that the
> browser will offer warnings in the case that you choose to select an
> entire monitor anyway.
>