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Option to render site name with WOT rating color #30

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I think a great enhancement would be to set the font color of the blocked site 
names to the WOT rating color: red, orange or green.  If there's no WOT rating, 
it could be black still.

This would save me many clicks.

Since this could potentially have performance impact, it probably should be an 
optional feature.

What do you think?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ted.lil...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2011 at 3:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. IT is definitely an idea, but my main concern 
revolves mainly on the additional load that will be placed on the WOT servers 
(which is multiplied by the number of external resources on any given page a 
user is on and also by the number of users who are using ScriptNo).

As well, some users may question this feature (if it were implemented) as it 
suggests that their browsing activities are being transmitted every time they 
click on the ScriptNo widget.

This is definitely an idea though, but I'll invite more users to discuss this 
further :)

Original comment by andr...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2011 at 8:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Good points.  I think I made the suggestion of not changing the default 
behavior of the program but rather making this an option that defaults off and 
could be turned on.  While the load on WOT might still increase, the lack of a 
default-on behavior would minimize this.  Additionally, you would only need to 
query the color once for each site and store it, eliminating repeat traffic, or 
at least refreshing only periodically.  You wouldn't need to query the color of 
any site that a user had selected an action for (block, trust, etc) either.  
Finally, perhaps the query could be done only just-in-time, when the user 
clicks the ScriptNo icon.  If so, then if the user never clicks, then there is 
zero traffic.

As far as the user knowing that information was being transmitted, a message by 
the option stating that it automatically does the same thing as clicking the 
"rating" button should be sufficient, given that it's off by default.

Just some ideas.

Original comment by ted.lil...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2011 at 8:30