Why is there a translucent band with a picture of a lock across the corner of all of XWTs windows?
XWT allows authors to create more visually rich web interfaces than ever before. Unfortunately, with that power comes a danger — malicious authors can create windows that look just like operating system windows, including password dialogs. A user could easily be tricked into typing his password into such a dialog, and it would get sent back to the malicious author. To prevent this, XWT “scars” all its windows with a stripe and a lock. There is no way for an application author to remove this scar. In the future, XWT will offer a facility for applications which use only HTTPS (and never use HTTP) to change the image to a closed lock, indicating that the window is not part of the operating system, but that anything entered into it will be encrypted before being sent across the network.
