encyclo - 1:54 am on Nov 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

It is a great initiative by the Konqueror development team, and the promise of better cross-browser consistency regarding secure certificates can only be good news. From reading the Konqueror team's report it is clear that the system demonstrated by Microsoft in the IE7 beta has attracted a lot of praise: with the address bar showing green for safe, red for unsafe and the padlock and certificate details much more visible and accessible from the address bar rather than the toolbar. Konqueror are going to adopt the scheme in KDE 4.0 and others are likely to follow.

The only surprise I had on reading this is that it does not appear that Apple's Safari team were invited - that browser is by far the strongest on th eMac platform nowadays, and it would be good to see a de-facto standard adopted not just for Windows and Linux/Unix but for Mac OSX too.