Fw: ACTION-106 Propose clarifying language for 8.2.5

          Mez

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

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Mike Beltzner <beltzner@mozilla.com> 
03/06/2007 01:05 AM

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Mary Ellen Zurko <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com>
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ACTION-106  Propose clarifying language for 8.2.5






ACTION-106

When taken, this action referred to s8.2.5 which has now become 
s9.2.5 in the latest draft, titled "Poorly defined role for chrome: 
Favicon". The issue is around misleading text which implies that the 
choice to display a logo and content of that logo is at the sole 
discretion of the visited web site, which is untrue.

Section 9.2.5 (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsc-usecases/#favicon) should be 
changed to read:

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9.2.5 Favicon

Websites can specify a small graphic called a [favicon] to act as an 
icon that appears in the URL bar in most desktop web browsers and on 
the tabs in some browsers. While the desktop web browsers control 
this chrome, none place any restrictions on the type of websites or 
type of images that will be displayed.

As a result, a website can choose to display a favicon that looks 
exactly like the padlock icon that is displayed in the URL bar by 
many browsers to indicate an SSL connection. In this case the user 
may believe that SSL is being used, when it is not.

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This closes ACTION-106

cheers,
mike