338681 - Page Info box should place more emphasis on site than URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Bruce Davidson]

Currently the second item in the page info box is the full URL of the page, complete with any (and all) query options. The site (e.g. www.google.com) is buried at the beginning of potentially several lines of text.

For secure sites the site is given in the blurb about the identity of the site having been verified.

I think the full URL is singificantly less important than the identity of the site you are looking at, particularly for secure sites.

Suggestion:

1. Insert a "Site:" entry above the page title in page info, for both secure and unsecure sites.

2. Possibly move the "Location:" entry to be the last entry.

3. Possibly move the padlock icon and the text "Verified" or similar (or the opposite) for secure sites where the site identity has (not) been verified, leaving only the description in the "Site Identity" entry.

I think this would make the crucial information more visible and avoid giving undue prominence to the horrors of some sites URLs.

Any thoughts?

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

Clarifying wording in summary.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirming. We should definitely do #1, dunno about the rest.

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

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