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Re: applet window warnings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Lemay, Killer of Trees)
Mon Nov 6 22:17:53 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 15:14:39 -0800
To: Sami.Shaio@Eng.Sun.COM (Sami Shaio), java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: lemayp@lne.com (Laura Lemay, Killer of Trees)
At 1:33 PM 11/5/95, Sami Shaio wrote:
>The banner shows up to distinguish the applet windows from other top-level
>windows. It's possible red might be a little too harsh but we wanted
>to prevent applets from putting up a window that asks the user to enter
>a password or something like that without there being a clear distinction
>from other windows. This also means that the browser runtime can put
>up windows that look different from the windows an applet can put up
>so there's a way for trusted code to interact with the user.
Ahhh, I see now. Well, that makes perfect sense, but the big red bar
and the WARNING is somewhat unnerving...not to mention really confusing.
Could there be a more subtle way of signalling this? Netscape has done
it really well with thier broken key icons and dialogs warning you when you're
submitting unsecure forms.
Perhaps a dialog when an applet pops up a window ("This window is being
generated from an applet") that could be dismissed once or permanently,
and applet windows could have a different colored border....or something
like that.
Just a thought.
Laura
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