Re: A study of various security prompts/user-permission scenarios from Olli Pettay on 2010-11-03 (public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org from November 2010)

From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:16:57 +0100
To: Satish Sampath <satish@google.com>
CC: public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
Message-ID: <4CD13699.2090700@helsinki.fi>

On 11/03/2010 10:44 AM, Satish Sampath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Relevant to our discussion about R29 in the F2F yesterday, here is a
> short paper about various types of security prompts and user
> permission scenarios found in current web browsers. The paper also
> talks in detail on which ones work well and which ones don't.
>
> https://8204431128202285268-a-alvestrand-com-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/alvestrand.com/rtc-web/papers/barth-security-prompt.pdf
>
> Cheers
> Satish
>
>

The conclusion is nice :)
"Rather than simply prompting the user for authorization, we should 
think more
carefully about how to design a better authorization experience."


-Olli

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