This is one of my pet peeves in using the web. There are many sites
which fail to work with my password manager (not all of them are Flash
or Openlaszlo).
It seems to me that in OpenLaszlo, for the DHTML runtime, when you
specify your input text is a password field, it ought to use the
correct HTML element, so that it will be recognized by the password
manager (what is that element?). Why not file an improvement request
at http://jira.openlaszlo.org?
On 2008-04-23, at 08:04 EDT, Tobias Wolf wrote:
Hi all,
i would like to know your opinion.
We are designing a small application with OpenLazslo. It is our
first Project with this framework and so far everything went fine.
The learning curve is quite good ;)
Naturally our app has an login component. The common user is used to
have an password manager, eg. the one built into his browser, to
deal with his login name and his password. If we compile to flash
this doesn't work, of course. Given we ability to compile to DHTML
my idea was to split the application, compile the login component to
DHTML and have the ability that password manager can deal with the
login and after authentication present the user a fine flash app.
This was the thought, but the javascript that gets compiled builds
the login fields out of DIVs, and so the password manager doesn't
recognize the elements and does not jump in.
I know, the workaround is to build the login with normal HTML and
embed the app. But i would like to concentrate GUI development on
one platform and OL seems to be a very good choice.
First: Is this done on purpose to discourage the use of password
managers?
Second: Is there a way to compile a Password Manager friendly DHTML
component out of an LZX file?
Third: Is someone willing to change the compilation process for
DHTML to something that supports for password managers? Since i
cannot do it myself in a resonanle timeframe. Apart from not knowing
if this is wanted at all. It is possible you are quite happy with
the things as they are, which i could understand completely ;)
I am anxious to hear your opinions.
Kind regards,
--
Tobias Wolf
