[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:42:55PM -0600, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > Render non 7-bit printable ASCII characters in a different color.  Or
> > with a different color background.
> 
> How do you render a zero-width non-breaking space in a different colour?
> 
> :)
> 
> Actually, i think your suggestion is a pretty good idea.  Some invisible
> characters would still need to be outlawed, but for the remaining ones,
> the use of colour could help.
 
Problem if relying on differently colored characters, not if using
background color covering some minimum width for each non-P7ASCII
character.


On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:10:00AM +0000, Ian G wrote:
> 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.

Only "paypal" would have a purple background, not the entire URL
bar.  That would look considerably more odd than the entire URL bar
background switching to light yellow for https.  Why would anyone
complain about Firefox's yellow https URL bar, and why are you
certain that you would have heard about it if they had?


My suggestion doesn't help people who want to visit non-P7ASCII
domains.

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