How good is this!! A benchmark in web 2.0 usability if you ask me.
Also note the address bar. All host info is in light grey and the domain is in black. Simple but very clever UI design to help people become aware of phishing sites.
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March 7, 2008 at 12:08 am
The domain highlighting is nice, but it all depends on how it’s doing it (which I haven’t looked at, so pardon my ignorance).
If it’s using some type of parsing, then it’s going to get broken in some way - there’s always some clever tricks out there that someone will find to make it screw-up and highlight the wrong section of the URL. Happened in previous versions of IE where it “chopped” off some of the URL from the address bar, effectively hiding the malicious part. If it’s IP based (the browser reverse looks up the domain the IP is listed to, and highlights the matching part in the URL) then that might be better, but I’d like to know how it deals with mult-hosted sites (has to then fall back to the HTTP Host: header), which could be an interesting attack.
Something I’ll have to have a look at when I have some of that non-existent “free time”