Stanley Ho posted a blog about new security dialogs available in the upcoming Java release (J2SE 1.5 Update 6) and Mustang. Following are new security dialogs for Java deployment process:
Signed application with valid certificate (Source: Stanley Ho )
Dialog displaying more information for valid certificates. (Source: Stanley Ho )
Java applications can be deployed via Java Web Start and Java Plug-in. These new security dialogs has been introduced for improving the deployment user experience of Java applications.
Reading the comments on Stanley’s blog it seems to be that a beautiful screen design of the dialogs is important. I really like the design of the new security dialogs. Will these new security dialogs really improve the overall user experience of the deployment process?
October 24th, 2005 at 11:02 am
It was actually one complaint in previous versions. The security dialogs were “scary” for non technical users and it seems they prevented some from running apps. That means there are users out there that do read warning dialogs. Amazing ^^