Re: petnames and bookmarks (Was: petname implementation recommendation proposal)

On 2008-03-20 16:47:39 +0000, Close, Tyler J. wrote:

> Current browsers support creating a bookmark with a single button
> press, or keystroke, and no further user interaction. The
> hypertext for the bookmark is chosen by the visited page, as
> expressed by the HTML TITLE element. Consequently, it is very
> easy for a blog post to get itself bookmarked in my browser under
> the name "bank account". The next time I go to use my "bank
> account" bookmark to do some online banking, I may inadvertently
> visit a blog post turned phishing site.

> I think keeping the fast, one-click user action for bookmark
> creation is important, so instead of working this problem from
> the bookmark creation side, I'm going at it from the bookmark
> lookup side. Conformance text follows:

Generalizing (maybe illegitimately) from my own usage of these
features, I often use one-click bookmarking for stuff that's in the
"keep that link around, somewhere" category.  Things that I consider
important, I typically want to have in my bookmark toolbar, and
therefore I end up in a multi-click interaction in that case.

Ironically, there are some self-signed and untrusted trust roots
involved with these important sites; I would actually consider a
petname extensio rather useful for them.

(Though, actually, the display of certificate-related information
that FX3 gives me when browser.identity.ssl_domain_display is
activated is somewhat useful even in these situations...)

> A web user agent that supports petnames MUST also support a
> presentation of bookmarks that presents the association between
> each bookmark and the petname of the hosting site. If the hosting
> site could be assigned a petname, but the user has not yet done
> so, the presentation MUST present those bookmarks as being
> associated with a distinct, but not yet petnamed host. If the
> hosting site cannot be assigned a petname, since the host does
> not support the previously established constraints for assignment
> of a petname, the presentation MUST indicate so. This bookmark
> presentation MUST support assignment, renaming and deletion of
> petnames.

I'd love to understand better what you mean by that.  Really an
additional requirement on the bookmarks managers that typical
browsers have?

-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Wednesday, 26 March 2008 08:26:24 UTC