[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Ian G]

Mike Linksvayer wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:11:27PM -0600, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
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>>It seems feasible to me to choose (or design) a font that would make
>>all of the 7-bit printable ASCII characters clearly distinguishable.
>>For domain recognition we don't even need all the characters -- just
>>the letters, digits, hyphen, and period.
>>
>>This does not seem feasible to me for a character set as large as
>>Unicode, and flatly impossible for Unicode in particular because
>>Unicode includes characters that are *defined* to be invisible or
>>to combine with other characters to yield perfect homographs.
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>Render non 7-bit printable ASCII characters in a different color.  Or
>with a different color background.
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What happens if the character set includes the full
set of non 7-bit printable ASCII characters to mimics all
needed letters?

E.g., we see a totally purple "paypal" ?  As nobody
to date has complained about the yellow background
colour of Firefox 1.0 URL bar, my guess is that this
will pass by too.

iang

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