I think this would be a good time to bring up http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-968 ' merge "First name" and "Last name" into "Full name" '
Melinda Green escreveu: > Mike Monkowski wrote: > >> Cypren Christenson wrote: >> >> >>> * The use of a combo box for the first field, with selection setting >>> the contents of multiple fields, may be confusing. Any other options >>> here that would be more intuitive while also keeping the aesthetic >>> sensibility of the existing login screen would be welcome. >>> >>> >> How about auto completion? >> >> > > Hey, that's a great idea! It would require a tricky special > implementation of auto-complete that would offer matching first+last > name pairs and then on acceptance would separate them to fill in the > other text boxes, but that UI would likely be more natural to a new user > than an editable drop-down field. This still requires a way for users to > erase entries from the list but I think my previous suggestion of tying > that action to unchecking the "remember password" check box might work. > > >>> * Possible security concerns with the characters selected for the >>> delimiters. With LLPanel::childSetPrevalidate to filter characters >>> from input, the worst-case scenario seems to be that a malicious user >>> could edit settings files and induce boost::tokenizer to fail to parse >>> the string correctly. In that event, we would simply clear the >>> relevant fields. Are there other concerns I'm missing? >>> >>> >> I think the settings are FirstName and LastName. I don't see the >> password in the settings file. But instead of mashing everything >> together, you could create setting called FirstNameAlt1, FirstNameAlt2, >> LastNameAlt1, LastNameAlt2, ... You'd have to make sure that you move >> the names up the list when one gets deleted, otherwise you wouldn't know >> where to stop, since I don't think the settings lookup allows a wildcard. >> > > This would be new data. I like Cypren's suggestion to mash it all > together into a single (new) string value rather than as separate > settings and/or places that would only need to be gathered all together > anyway. For compatibility, I suppose it could look for the old > First/Last Name settings when the new setting is not found but I don't > see that as important. > > Good luck! > -Melinda > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
