Re: [idn] punctuation

[Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>]

Michel Suignard wrote:
> Many web sites use deep DNS sub-zones today
> (including the company I work for) and I really
> doubt our customers would appreciate such a
> radical change in user experience.

As has already been pointed out on this list, a phisher could take 
advantage of a very long domain name to push the important part past the 
end of the display area. In the long run, the phishing problem may 
outweigh the user experience problem that would result from the radical 
change that I am talking about.

Besides, there is a much better way to tell the user where they are. See 
the blurb about "breadcrumb trails" at:

http://useit.com/alertbox/20000109.html

You can see these breadcrumb trails near the top of:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/toolsamp/default.aspx

> it also frequent to see
> myzone.example.org which works really well with
> autocompletion logic. Putting org first would
> sort of defeat that logic as well.

I have seen autocompleters that work for the middle or end of a string. 
In fact, Microsoft Internet Explorer has one.

> Like somebody else already said, I feel some
> level of overreaction in these threads.

Ten years from now, let's revisit this topic together, shall we? I am 
not a betting man, but let's just see how it goes.

Erik