Microsoft did not invent this idea (color url bar)

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Microsoft did not invent this idea (color url bar)
by Jason Keirstead on Tuesday 22/Nov/2005, @11:30

Firefox has been doing this for over a year now.

Not that it matters much who invented it first, but I am really surprised that you have never seen this before until you saw an IE7 demo.

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Re: Microsoft did not invent this idea (color url
by ac on Tuesday 22/Nov/2005, @15:14

I don't know where you get that "invented it first" stuff from since it's not in the article. What's in the article however is following impression of Mr. Staikos:

"I was initially resistant to the idea of using colour to indicate security - especially the colour yellow! However the idea we have discussed have been implemented by Microsoft in their IE7 address bar, when I saw it in action I was sold. I think we should implement Konqueror the same way for KDE4."

To make that clearer, Firefox started with coloring the URL bar yellow when an encrypted connection is used. The approach by the IE developers was to make use of that URL widget coloring to not only display whether the connection is encrypted, but also whether it's signed and whether the URL string may be pishing related.

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Re: Microsoft did not invent this idea (color url
by David P James on Tuesday 22/Nov/2005, @22:22

I'm not sure if the Microsoft developers were aware of this or not, but I had this very idea (of different colours for different states of encryption) when the proposal was first floated to colour Firefox's url over a year and a half ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244025#c1

Still, if IE implements this idea and the other browsers follow, this will be one example where Microsoft takes the lead for once.

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