On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Simon Orr Simon.Orr@teleperformance.co.ukwrote:
Just to add my $0.02: I agree that this is due to something beyond the control of mediawiki and probably shouldn't be worked around -
Clearing the box down with JS should be easy but if you're going to wait more than a few milliseconds to do it, an experienced user may well have started to type into the box by that time - and silently chopping off the first few chars of your old password is not a great plan. (This is more likely to happen if it's driven by the page's onload event which won't fire until after all images etc... Are loaded meaning the PW box itself may have been visible for a number of seconds on a slow connection)
I was under the impression that FF and other browsers remembered passwords based on the URL and field names (please correct me if I'm wrong) so I'm not sure why it's pre-populating the password on that page (the edit box has a different name to the login page) unless someone has specifically prompted the browser to remember their password on the change password (preferences) page - which seems to me to be utterly pointless in the first place.
Can you clarify why exactly FF is remembering the password on that page
- did you ask it to?
I could be wrong here as well, but I was always under the impression FF remembered passwords based on domain name (including subdomain(s)), meaning any password box on en.wikipedia (or any domain) will be autofilled.
Like I said, I could be wrong, but I thought that's how it was and seems consistent with my own observations.
-Chad