Re: What is a secure page?

Good point. So it sounds like the indicators on whether or not the scoping 
mechanism works, and how things may be tied into the scoping mechanism, 
are inconsistent so far. 

          Mez

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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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