I agree that the auto-shift is not that bright, but start patch the login form for every thing out there may get harder. Don't you think default to case-insensitive search will be better?
Ido On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Ido Ran <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree, it should not be forced - I think it should be the default. > > If you know what you are doing and have a good reason to use > case-sensitive > > usernames then go ahead, but for the rest of us, it should be as simple > as > > it can. > > How Couch people say - case-insensitive username is more relaxing :) > > > > CouchDB uses document lookups to find users, so doing this would > involve making docids case-insensitive, which isn't gonna happen. > > The good answer would be to add whatever iPhone tags you have to add > to keep it from doing that stupid auto-shift key thing on login forms. > > I'd love a patch for that against this file: > > > http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/blob/master/vendor/evently/account/loginForm/mustache.html > > Chris > > > Ido > > > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> The question is whether CouchDB should force everyone to do that or > >> not. I think it should not. > >> > >> B. > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Tyler Gillies <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I think case insensitivity is good, prevents thing from getting > >> complicated > >> > with two users one named tyler and one named Tyler > >> > > >> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Randall Leeds < > [email protected] > >> >wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:13, Ido Ran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > Unix, Linux, Windows, Gmail, Skype > >> >> > > >> >> > Any application I can think of treat username in case-insensitive > way. > >> >> > >> >> Really??? > >> >> > >> >> rle...@randalltor:~$ sudo -u Rleeds > >> >> sudo: unknown user: Rleeds > >> >> rle...@randalltor:~$ > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > http://www.readwriteweb.com/about#tyler > >> > > >> > Ask me anything <http://tumble.pdxbrain.com/ask>! > >> > > >> > > > > > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchrisa.net > http://couch.io >
