Re: ACTION-346 - Suggest alternate text for 8.1.2

On 2007-12-03 16:57:43 -0500, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:

> 1) Changing the normative text in §8.1.2 to read:

>> Web User Agents MUST NOT communicate trust information using user interface 
>> elements which can be mimicked in chrome by web content.  Site-controlled 
>> content (e.g. page title, favicon) MAY be hosted in chrome, but this 
>> content MUST NOT be displayed in a manner that confuses hosted content and 
>> chrome indicators.

> 2) Removing the MUST NOT bullets in §8.1.3 relating to favicons.  We can 
> offer more guidance here though, so that the new section might read:

>> 8.1.3 Techniques

>> This section is normative.

>> The following technique is neither necessary nor sufficient to claim 
>> conformance with the Requirement. However, conformance with this technique 
>> entails conformance with the necessary techniques that concern favorite 
>> icons.
>>
>>   - Web User Agents MAY ignore favorite icon [FAVICON] references that are 
>> part of Web content.
>>   - Web User Agents SHOULD NOT use a 16x16 image in chrome to indicate 
>> security status if doing so would allow the FAVICON to mimic it.

Per ACTION-392, I'm merging this proposal into the editor's draft.
In doing so, I'll also drop the Requirements / Techniques structure
for 8.1, and also the remarks about facets of the user interface (we
seemed to agree on the latter at the face-to-face), i.e., 8.1.1.

Relevant minutes:

  http://www.w3.org/2008/02/06-wsc-minutes.html#item07

I haven't gone through the issues listed in this part of the spec;
some might be moot now.

  Web Security Context: Experience, Indicators, and Trust
  Editor's Draft 28 February 2008
  $Revision: 1.169 $ $Date: 2008/02/28 00:38:51 $
  
  http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#site-identifying

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:40:52 UTC