On 5/4/10 12:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
3) Currently autofill for usernames looks for something like
id="username" or name="username". However on certain websites this
fails. Furthermore some websites offer a "find other members" feature
where you could type in a username. I've often seen these fields
filled in automatically with my name.
Firefox's existing password manager doesn't do this. Roughly, it assumes
the username field is the first <input type="text"> before the first
<input type="password"> in a form.
My previous thinking about this problem was to allow tagging the <form>
element with the names of the inputs to be used for the login. For example:
<form loginfields="abc,def">
<input type="text" name="abc">
<input type="password" name="def">
</form>
But I agree with what Jonas noted earlier in this thread; improving the
login experience needs a broader solution than just tweaking HTML
attributes. Additionally, I suspect that the sites with currently-broken
login forms are the ones least likely to change... It's not hard to make
existing sites work with existing password managers, so I don't think
it's a problem more markup will solve.
Justin
