On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Simon Orr
<Simon.Orr(a)teleperformance.co.uk>wrote;wrote:
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