Browser IDN display policy: opinions sought
John Levine
johnl at taugh.com
Sat Dec 10 22:30:46 CET 2011
>That a displayed domain name is "not altogether fine" could instead be
>indicated by, e.g., red background, overstriking, or explicit error
>messages (in the UI language of the application/app/...) associated
>somehow with the display of the IDN, or a combination of these. ...
Please, no. A decade of bad UI design has trained users that no
matter what a warning says, you ignore it and click through. Let's
not make that mistake again.
Either display the Unicode name or don't.
R's,
John
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