RE: ACTION-208: "Site Identifying Images in Chrome"displayrecommendation

Agreed, but you said site identification not window identification. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Roessler [mailto:tlr@w3.org] 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:41 AM
To: McCormick, Mike
Cc: Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com; public-wsc-wg@w3.org;
rachna.public@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ACTION-208: "Site Identifying Images in
Chrome"displayrecommendation

On 2007-06-10 23:47:00 -0500, michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com wrote:

> *** MIKE: Here I must disagree.  The favicon is never useful to 
> identify a site because it is completely untrustworthy for that 
> purpose.  Anyone who uses favicons to identify sites effectively 
> proves why they're a bad idea security-wise.

Well, the visual appearance of the rendering area of a browser window is
as untrustworthy -- yet, it's highly useful when trying to identify the
right window on your desktop.

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Monday, 11 June 2007 13:37:31 UTC