RE: Larry Seltzer on the Green Bar (IE versus Opera)

I agree it would be helpful if there could be a consistent interpretation of
what a chrome indicator, such as a green address bar means

 

Dan

 

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From: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:57 PM
To: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
Subject: Larry Seltzer on the Green Bar (IE versus Opera)

 

 <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Wheres-My-Green-Bar/>
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Wheres-My-Green-Bar/ 

In his eWeek column, while generally praising EV, Larry brings up a valid
point in comparing IE to Opera; one turns the address bar green if the top
level doc has a valid EV cert, the other only turns green if ALL elements of
the page have it.  He goes on to list a number of well known www sites that
turn IE green but not Opera.

Have we adequately addressed this question in wsc-xit?  Ideally all user
agents would behave the same way when presenting AA cert indicators.

 

Michael McCormick, CISSP 
Lead Security Architect, Information Security Technologies 
Wells Fargo Bank 
"THESE OPINIONS ARE STRICTLY MY OWN AND NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF WELLS
FARGO" 
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