281005 - Security information not being show in Page Info

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Minimo Graveyard :: Minimo Front-End, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Using today's trunk build:

When you visit a secure site, no security information is being shown.

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

This was for an old version of minimo which we dropped.  the new version of minimo doesn't have a page info dialog.  Maybe it should...w

Comment 2

[timeless]

heh. i know one embedder that needs to be able to have page info, although that's very different from needing minimo to draw it.

Comment 3

[timeless]

perhaps i should add *why* one needs page info.

the usual reason is that you visit a webpage and click on a media link, and have the media appear in your tiny browser instead of being sent to your media viewer, you the immediately complain that the browser did something wrong. ideally when this happens you'd be trained to check page info and realize that "it's not my[the browser's] fault". (we're trying to train some people internally about this, although page info of course needs to not lie about this stuff.)

wrt security, yes small browsers are used for banking and for service management (talk to justdave) and they do need to be able to verify that things really are trustworthy.