Re: Slightly off topic - summary of problems with SSL from dotCrime Manifesto

> I think in general it's a risky to make broad statements about
> particular UI behavior across existing browsers, and not consider
> that there might be possibly important distinctions among them. In
> discussions here, I sometimes find myself wondering exactly which
> browsers people have spent time looking at. I get the impression
> that most folks are probably pretty familiar with MSIE and
> Firefox. And maybe with Safari. But I wonder who's spent time
> looking at, say, Konqueror (which is, I think, the second-most
> widely used browser on Linux), or Flock or Maxthon or OmniWeb
> (which are known for having some innovative features), or Amaya
> (the W3C's browser/editor), or iCab, or Shiira, or Flock, or...
> 
> I'm not saying that other browsers are necessarily doing anything
> differently today with regard to display of security context
> information than MSIE or Firefox are. But they may already have
> some UI behavior that could shine light on ways to better display
> security information.

Mike, would you be willing to draft section 8, Browsers/UAs we'll look at, 
starting with this list (or what you know)? 
        Mez

Received on Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:20:25 UTC