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.
> 
>    I've seen no studies that would answer this question.  I think the 
short
> answer is that tabs are new to many users and there's no evidence that 
theyy
> fully understand the scoping rules.
> 
>    I'm currently looking at the tabs in FireFox 2 (see the attached 
page).
> One interesting feature of the way tabs are presented by FireFox 2 is 
that
> they are drawn to encompass everything _below_ them.  In Firefox, this
> includes page content but not the address bar or security information.
> 
>    The FireFox 2 tabs contain a window close button that used to be part 
of
> the window frame.  Presumably they were moved here because users didn't
> understand, or weren't comfortable with, the model in which a close icon 
for
> the window closed a tab. 

So that sounds like data that could be used to argue the scoping is 
effective.

        Mez