Re: What is a secure page?

Hmm does that mean that the location/url bar is going into the tab  
too? :-)

On 17-Jan-07, at 9:35 AM, Stuart E. Schechter wrote:

>
>>>    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?
>
>
>

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Received on Monday, 22 January 2007 06:34:31 UTC