Closed Bug 283013 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

suggestion: display IDN letters in different colour instead of puny code

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 279099

People

(Reporter: armin.jakob, Assigned: bugs)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050216 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050216 Firefox/1.0+ Would it be possible to color-code the IDN letters in the location bar? This would make them stand out immediately while preserving the readability. The display of puny code while being very obvious is a pain to read. Reproducible: Always
The discussion about real solutions takes place in Bug 279099. Please read the whole bug before you comment. No comment spam please! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279099 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Version: unspecified → Trunk
That solution was deemed inadequate, for various reasons, the main one being that it shouldn't be necessary to discriminate against punycode domain names as a class.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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