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Interesting that the domain to the right doesn't display the smiley, but the link itself does.
by NoodleIncident 13y ago
Interesting that the domain to the right doesn't display the smiley, but the link itself does.
- dspillett 13y agoThis is for the same reason browsers have stopped showing unicode characters in address bars: it is possible to create a sequence of characters that looks so like another host name that a naive user could be fooled into thinking they are looking at something entirely different, and this was used by many a phishing scam for a while. If a malicious poster had manufactured a unicode string that looked like microsoft.com and posted a link here, the fact that the hostname is presented in its source form would reveal the duplicity.