Re: What is a secure page?

Are tabs understandable scoping indicators? I would have thought they 
were, but of course, that's just a random opinion. So, if they are, they 
it doesn't. 

          Mez

Mary Ellen Zurko, STSM, IBM Lotus CTO Office       (t/l 333-6389)
Lotus/WPLC Security Strategy and Patent Innovation Architect




"Stuart E. Schechter" <ses@ll.mit.edu> 
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> From: Mary Ellen Zurko <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com>
> I propose this as a design principle -
> absent any understandable scoping indicators, users will assume that any
> and all security context information displayed applies to everything in
> the browser.

   The modern browser may contain multiple tabs.  By this logic, security
context information applies to all tabs.  Was that your intent?

   Stuart

   (Who as a result of this email is now wondering why my browser doesn't
put a lock icon in the tabs of secure sites.)