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Well, as I recall, several of the questioners at that session were verging on the point of heckling, so many of the responses were short. But the answer is tha
by agl 16y ago
Well, as I recall, several of the questioners at that session were verging on the point of heckling, so many of the responses were short.
But the answer is that permitting mixed content was probably a mistake in the first place, but it's one that we have to live with. The ease of mixing content means that many sites get it wrong (including Google sites, to our shame) and the lack of ubiquitous SSL (again, including some Google sites) imposes that on others.
So, I suppose that `we don't consider it a problem' is roughly correct regarding warning dialogs: the answer is not to mix content. The problem is that it's clearly too difficult to do that. (The inability of networks to cache public resources over HTTPS is also an issue and possibly one which we'll address.)
Lack of SSL on the Chart's API is a new one, but I'll look into it now that I know that it's a problem.
As for the rest of the problem: fixing stuff is hard. Miraculous answers invariably tend to be so only in the eyes of the conceiver. We'll keep plugging away.
- thwarted 16y agoThat's good to hear. But considering that only now is SSL considered to be "important", because of FireSheep, it would have been nice to have a major player like Google seriously consider/suggest/lead the dialog on solutions here, even if some of them are "hard" or unworkable. It's nice to have options, or know what the options are. Or even to say "there is no solution, create systems that don't mix protocols". I mean, when I went back and summarized my experience at Velocity to the rest of my team, that this question was glossed over as it was led to some audible guffaws. Because we've all been dealing with users for years who don't know how to deal with the UX of this problem.
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoHow's that free SSL-enabled google maps service coming along? Any chance we'll ever see it without paying umpty-thousands of dollars for the privilege?