Comments on: EVSSL user-interface in Safari 3.2 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/11/17/evssl-user-interface-in-safari-32/ Gen Kanai's Mozilla weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pavlost http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/11/17/evssl-user-interface-in-safari-32/comment-page-1/#comment-70902 Pavlost Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:33:27 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=225#comment-70902 Maybe it's because Apple understands that EVSSL is (to put it kindly) not that important. Maybe it’s because Apple understands that EVSSL is (to put it kindly) not that important.

]]> By: me http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/11/17/evssl-user-interface-in-safari-32/comment-page-1/#comment-70869 me Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:10:51 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=225#comment-70869 The Firefox dialog violates the user interface guidelines; this kind of modal dialogs is supposed to have the look the safari screenshot shows. The Firefox look is for non-modal panels with quick settings in applications that focus on visual information (like image editors). The information in the dialog in the Firefox dialog is slightly better; the Safari dialog has not been updated for EV certificates. The presentation of the presence of the EV certificate in Safari is better because it cannot be faked with a popup that has picture that looks like the navigation and no real navigation bar. It also doesn't waste the amount of space Firefox's solution does, and it doesn't have the rounded corners that are another violation of the user interface guidelines (rounded corners are for search fields, normal fields like the address bar have square corners). There is more to the Mac OS X user interface than glossy widgets. The purpose of these widgets has been carefully thought out, but it only works if the developers use them for the purpose they are supposed to be used for. Please, read the Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines: <a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines" rel="nofollow">http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines</a> The Firefox dialog violates the user interface guidelines; this kind of modal dialogs is supposed to have the look the safari screenshot shows. The Firefox look is for non-modal panels with quick settings in applications that focus on visual information (like image editors).

The information in the dialog in the Firefox dialog is slightly better; the Safari dialog has not been updated for EV certificates.

The presentation of the presence of the EV certificate in Safari is better because it cannot be faked with a popup that has picture that looks like the navigation and no real navigation bar. It also doesn’t waste the amount of space Firefox’s solution does, and it doesn’t have the rounded corners that are another violation of the user interface guidelines (rounded corners are for search fields, normal fields like the address bar have square corners).

There is more to the Mac OS X user interface than glossy widgets. The purpose of these widgets has been carefully thought out, but it only works if the developers use them for the purpose they are supposed to be used for. Please, read the Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines

]]> By: Alex http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/11/17/evssl-user-interface-in-safari-32/comment-page-1/#comment-70860 Alex Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:21:17 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/?p=225#comment-70860 Yeah, it seemed strange when I first saw it, but at least it will seem normal to long time Safari users (Since the padlock's always been in the top right hand corner) Yeah, it seemed strange when I first saw it, but at least it will seem normal to long time Safari users (Since the padlock’s always been in the top right hand corner)

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