Thoughts on its role and impact on the web’s landscape.
      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Let’s say that I go to google.com. The UI shows https://google.com/ . No punycode because it is plain ascii. Everything is as expected.

        Now let’s say I click on a link for googӏe.com. The ui shows https://xn--googe-hof.com/ (googӏe.com) I’d be like, holy shit that is a shady URL!

        That’s how I imagine it helping, although I am not a UI expert. There could be a better way. But that googӏe.com scares me – I can’t visually tell that it is not a normal lowercase “l”.

        P.S. for the URL in question, https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/ (マリウス.com) I imagine that if I went to it frequently, I might begin to recognize the punycode, sorta like how people recognize rickroll URLs.

              • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                22 days ago

                For most security - centric websites, the right name is ASCII only.

                For any that aren’t, people would have the opportunity to become familiar with the correct fingerprint over time and have a chance to notice a difference.

                I’m curious to hear if you think there is a better way. What I’m saying is unlikely to ever be implemented in a browser and I’m not trying to convince you or anything, just say why I personally would appreciate it.

                  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                    22 days ago

                    Yep. Do you all have important URLs with Unicode characters?

                    I think it would be great if registries screened registrations for confusable names. Even if they did though, I wouldn’t expect them to succeed 100%