Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 04 February 2019 01:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough
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In article <20190203234846.GA4108@localhost> you write:
>font, say, modulo accessibility), is another story.  I think I'd prefer
>to see the Unicode and some danger warning, or perhaps hide the URI and
>when I try to see it tell me it's dangerous and why.

You might well, but I doubt that most users would.

I've seen examples of mixed direction labels which overlay so that it
looks like microsoft.com although it's really
microsoft.something.something.something.com.  I doubt that any
explanatory text would persuade the generic grandma that it's not
really microsoft.com and the computer is just being silly again.

If there's nothing useful the normal user can do with it, don't
display it.