Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Matthew Thomas wrote:
>...
> > `All occurrences of question icon should be removed'
> > <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59820>.
>...
> The question mark we speak here about is not in a dialog. We are
> speaking about the icon in the upper right of the message pane, which
> indicated in 4.x, if the message if encrypted or signed.
Sorry, my mistake.
> IIRC, in 4.x, it contains an exclamation mark for self-signed certs
> (and additionally popped up an alert). This should be changed to a
> question mark in order to show that the validity of the cert is
> unknown, not invalid.
>...
You'd still have to be very careful that novices didn't confuse it with
a help button. That was, after all, half the reason for Microsoft
deprecating the use of the question mark icon in alerts.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
