> I think I have an answer: imagine if you have a "My bank" link in a site you
> don't completely trust, you check in your statusbar if the URL is trustful
> (i.e. address =http://www.mybank.com) and you think it is. But when you
> click, there's a JS that changes the URL and redirects you on a phishing
> site; you trusted the link, why can't you trust the site? You can imagine
> the rest...

That is a change of site link - we are talking about only allowing a
URL change
on the SAME site. Like,
mybank.com to mybank.com/page1.html

not
mybank.com to evilsite.com

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