[html-formfu] Sticky password field

Carl Franks fireartist at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 07:41:20 GMT 2009


2009/3/21 Ashley Pond V <ashley.pond.v at gmail.com>:
> I realize there are arguments to be made for always clearing the password
> fields. They seem pretty hollow though. If it went up under http in clear
> text it doesn't really increase the risk by sending it back as clear text.
> The only user in contact with it is the user entering it so it really just
> boils down to bad UI.
>
> Consider, for example, a longish form with many points of input failure
> (unique username, strong enough password, etc, etc, etc). In that form which
> has password and password_repeat the user might end up typing in the same
> password 8, 16, 30 or more times after starting to fat finger it out of
> frustration or while looping through the first 10 usernames which are
> already taken. Terrible UI and it has made me want to scream on other sites
> with ridiculous constraint hoops.
>
> I don't see a way to make password fields sticky with FormFu presently but I
> would really like to do so. Easy? Possible? Require a rendering patch and
> new flag?

Nah, it's not that hard - mental note: document this

    type: Password
    name: foo
    render_value: 1

Cheers,
Carl



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