Does it really matter if my name got slightly formatted? Seems like we are making a mountain out of a mole hill. If I log in with "my username" it should still allow me to login as "My username". Why do I care how things are formatted behind the scenes?
If a user enters an invalid character for users with JavaScript you could improve this by disabling the submit button and saying "invalid character entered". The combination of these 2 things seems more than enough over something trivial.
FWIW I find the fact we support case insensitive usernames extremely confusing and a bad user experience that we should try to rectify - both 'Jimbo_wales' and 'Jimbo_Wales' users exist leading to all sorts of confusing and unnecessary mistaken identity editing possibilities. I know of no other websites that do this and it makes sense not to...
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:30:25PM -0800, Jared Zimmerman wrote:
I think their might be some misunderstanding as to what I'm proposing, my suggestion is that is is literally impossible to type a user name that is incompatible with our system, there would be no before and after, there would be no submit and then show a different user name, as the user types in the input field only acceptable characters and formats are accepted, characters that aren't allowed either don't show up and all or are automatically replaced as the user types, if they type i as the first character I is shown instead. there is not "error" step in the process.
This is a super painful usability issue - if someone types in characters, they expect those characters to show up in the input box. You can give them feedback about it, but simply *ignoring* the typing is not the way to do this.
See also: Password input boxes that silently ignore characters past 20 or 15 or whatever. It makes it impossible to use the site. This is less bad, but still not great.
-- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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