Leaving out scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

[Mark Davis]

That's great. Something that I think we lose sight of is that

http://amazon.com-official.sounding.but.bogus.com/....

is just as bad as some of the IDNA examples -- or worse, since it can be
done in plain ascii. UI like this is a real step forward.

Mark

On 12/21/06, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:
>
> Erik van der Poel wrote:
> > I already mentioned the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics character that
> > looks like a slash followed by a backslash, and then Ken mentioned
> > several other letters that look vaguely like that.
>
> You mentioned U+1431, right?
>
> > These may not be very convincing to _you_, but please consider that
> > some of the users that are only now coming online are rather
> > unfamiliar with computers and all of the cryptic strings like
> > "http://". Such users might be confused by _any_ character that looks
> > like it might possibly be the end of a domain name. That's why I
> > brought up the issue of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.
>
> Sure.
>
> I agree that browsers could do better at distinguishing the domain from
> the rest. I'm currently evaluating the Firefox extension Locationbar^2,
> which makes it bold. I rather like the effect, although it needs some UI
> tweaks.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4014/
>
> I agree that making domain names distinct from the rest of the URL
> merely by restricting the IDN characters available is a tough job.
> However, I also don't want to turn the URL bar into a kaleidoscope of
> colours, indicators and dividers, as some (not here) have suggested.
>
> > The idea to display the domain name separately in the lower right
> > corner in Firefox is great; I assume we have you to thank for that.
>
> Yes :-) It's a start.
>
> Gerv
>
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