That's great. Something that I think we lose sight of is that<br><br><a href="http://amazon.com-official.sounding.but.bogus.com/..">http://amazon.com-official.sounding.but.bogus.com/..</a>..<br><br>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.
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gervase Markham</b> <<a href="mailto:gerv@mozilla.org">gerv@mozilla.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Erik van der Poel wrote:<br>> I already mentioned the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics character that<br>> looks like a slash followed by a backslash, and then Ken mentioned<br>> several other letters that look vaguely like that.
<br><br>You mentioned U+1431, right?<br><br>> These may not be very convincing to _you_, but please consider that<br>> some of the users that are only now coming online are rather<br>> unfamiliar with computers and all of the cryptic strings like
<br>> "http://". Such users might be confused by _any_ character that looks<br>> like it might possibly be the end of a domain name. That's why I<br>> brought up the issue of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.
<br><br>Sure.<br><br>I agree that browsers could do better at distinguishing the domain from<br>the rest. I'm currently evaluating the Firefox extension Locationbar^2,<br>which makes it bold. I rather like the effect, although it needs some UI
<br>tweaks.<br><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4014/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4014/</a><br><br>I agree that making domain names distinct from the rest of the URL<br>merely by restricting the IDN characters available is a tough job.
<br>However, I also don't want to turn the URL bar into a kaleidoscope of<br>colours, indicators and dividers, as some (not here) have suggested.<br><br>> The idea to display the domain name separately in the lower right
<br>> corner in Firefox is great; I assume we have you to thank for that.<br><br>Yes :-) It's a start.<br><br>Gerv<br></blockquote></div><br>