[cap-talk] Firefox ... identifiability - typing URLs, a, b,c - NO.

[Jed Donnelley]

At 04:11 PM 2/8/2005, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ben Laurie wrote:
>...
> > If you always type the URLs of sites you want to trust, this problem 
> does not occur.
>
>First, asking people to stop clicking on links is infeasible and defeats 
>the whole point of having a Web in the first place.

Amen to that brother!

>Second, the problem is more complex.  Consider these examples:
>
>(a), (b), (c) ...

All excellent points!  Typing in URLs is counterproductive in my 
opinion.  It goes back from the digital world where we have some chance of 
solving the problems to the analog world where confusion can more easily occur.

--Jed http://www.webstart.com/jed/