The problem with the Thawte Site Seals…

After having developed a site for a client, we were asked to include the THAWTE site seals that verify the site’s authenticity. That is all fine, but the seal uses

<script src="https://siteseal.thawte.com/cgi/server/thawte_seal_generator.exe"></script>

tags and holds the DOM load, often causing a performance drop — especially so if Thawte’s server is running slow and your page waits on the DOMREADY event….

The solution for a nice clean seal: Get rid of the sealgenerator.exe

Remove the code supplied by thawte code and replace with this goodness:

window.addEvent("domready", function() {
    // written for mootools 1.2
    var doSeal = function(targetObject) {
        // show thawte seal code w/o the reference to their exe in a dom compliant way
        var loc     = window.location.href;
        var sealLoc = "https://www.thawte.com/core/process?process=public-site-seal-cert-details&public-site-seal-cert-details.referer=" + loc;
        new Asset.image("https://siteseal.thawte.com/site-seal/image?g5ff7fe3df88d8fafaa6035dc97152679ga45f4b102502fefbd20332591412323c" + (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset() + "g5d43a4e836d7d07a50759fb1da9cc900g1a0452b749ddb29083736b34ef4a14e9ga45f4b102502fefbd20332591412323c" + loc, {id: 'sealimage'})
            .inject(targetObject).addClass("cur").set("title", "click to verify").addEvent("click", function() {
                window.open(sealLoc,'ga3ef4eb41dcac740b918440eb9cd19c8','height=500,width=516,scrollbars=yes,status=1');
            });
    } // end doSeal

    // embed it...
    doSeal($("seal"));
});// domready