That's right. There is an entire continent on which 100% of the Internet browsers are EV SSL compatible. What's the continent? Antarctica, of course.

It's a week of milestones. A few days ago I mentioned that over 70% of client systems were on EV-aware browsers. And according to the latest numbers from Netcraft, as of this month over 10,000 Web sites are using Extended Validation SSL Certificates.

Apologies for being late to the party on this one, but I have recently come to the realization that social networking friendly browser Flock has had EV support for a while, probably since October 15. I didn't get the word before now, most likely because I'm an old guy.

As promised I've looked a little more into the SSL behaviors in Chrome.

Chrome has a nice, strong interface regarding certificate errors. The browser presents a roadblock that you have to explicitly pass to access the page (similar to recent developments in, let's say, IE and Firefox), at the bottom of which you see two buttons, "Proceed anyway" and "Back to safety". If you select "Proceed anyway," then you can access the page, but now the https in the Web address is highlighted in red and has a red slash through it, and that reminder remains even while you're in the page. eWeek's Larry Seltzer has screen caps of a self-signed certificate so that you can see for yourself.

I feel the persistent...