ISSUE-198

Be the user's agent and do their bidding

6.4.4 Danger messages should not strictly forbid user agents from doing the user's bidding

State:

CLOSED

Product:

wsc-xit

Raised by:

Ian Fette

Opened on:

2008-05-13

Description:

Section 6.4.4 danger messages says "These interactions MUST be presented in a way that makes it impossible for the user go to or interact with the destination web site that caused the danger situation to occur." This is unacceptable, as the user agent is precisely that - the user's agent. The browser should never prevent the user from reaching the page that they wish. It can warn users, but should always offer a way to proceed, even if this includes some very longish set of steps to do so. At the end of the day though, the user must be able to proceed.

My suggested change: Change that text to say "These interactions MUST be presented in a way that makes it impossible for the user go to or interact with the destination web site that caused the danger situation to occur, without first explicitly interacting with the Danger Message."

I'm really having trouble reasoning if there should be a difference between DANGER and WARNING at all. Perhaps the only difference is that the text is harsher in DANGER messages?

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-443 on Anil Saldhana to Include proposal v6 changes to 6.4.4 - due 2008-05-20, closed

Related emails:

1. Re: ACTION-644: Summary of Last Call Comments (from mzurko@us.ibm.com on 2010-04-16)
2. Re: ACTION-644: Summary of Last Call Comments (from mzurko@us.ibm.com on 2010-04-12)
3. ACTION-644: Summary of Last Call Comments (from tlr@w3.org on 2010-04-11)
4. ACTION-643 Find previous WG discussion on this point (from mzurko@us.ibm.com on 2010-04-02)
5. Meeting record: 2008-05-13 (from tlr@w3.org on 2008-06-06)
6. Re: ISSUE-198 (Be the user's agent and do their bidding): 6.4.4 Danger messages should not strictly forbid user agents from doing the user's bidding [wsc-xit] (from Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com on 2008-05-14)
7. Re: ISSUE-198 (Be the user's agent and do their bidding): 6.4.4 Danger messages should not strictly forbid user agents from doing the user's bidding [wsc-xit] (from ifette@google.com on 2008-05-13)
8. Re: ISSUE-198 (Be the user's agent and do their bidding): 6.4.4 Danger messages should not strictly forbid user agents from doing the user's bidding [wsc-xit] (from egelman@cs.cmu.edu on 2008-05-13)
9. ISSUE-198 (Be the user's agent and do their bidding): 6.4.4 Danger messages should not strictly forbid user agents from doing the user's bidding [wsc-xit] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-05-13)

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