Re: What is a secure page? from Stuart E. Schechter on 2007-01-17 (public-wsc-wg@w3.org from January 2007)

From: Stuart E. Schechter <ses@ll.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:35:01 -0500
To: Mary Ellen Zurko <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com>
CC: "public-wsc-wg@w3.org" <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <C1D39E45.F8FE%ses@ll.mit.edu>

>>    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

   I don't understand the logic there.  Firefox 2 is moving away from the
model in which users are presumed to understand that all browser buttons
within a window apply to the current tab.  They are moving to a model in
which you have to explicitly show the user that the button applies to the
tab by putting it into the tab itself.  How would you argue that this change
supports the effectiveness of the scoping?

Received on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:40:59 UTC