Re: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Chrome Changes



On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:35 +0100, Kristoffer Lundén wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > On 3/2/06, Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer lunden gmail com> wrote:
> >The information could be in
> > the mouseover popup; i could only come up when the target link in some
> > way doesn't match the text of the link;
> 
> How could that possibly be decided? If a link says "Go to paypal" and
> the link is "paypal.bleh.com" instead of "www.paypal.com" a human can
> easily see that something is wrong, but a computer? And if the link
> text says "Gimme!" instead with the same links?

A very simple method: if the link is to a page on a site other than the
current page's. Hover would show "Gimme!\n(at paypal.bleh.com)".

It would probably be tricky to make sure that there would be no means
through Javascript to hide the site warning. But it would be worth it!

Adam

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