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Do you know what drives me batty? When I visit a site for the first time and I make an attempt to login, and my Firefox doesn't prompt me to save the credentials. What is the deal?
I can only assume they're standard <input ... > elements using some sort of javascript (or something else?) to somehow instruct the visitor's browser to not prompt them to save the login credentials.
Does anyone know what code is specifically being used to block the browser's prompt?
(Once I know what language is used for this horrible internet affliction, I'll move this thread to the appropriate sub-forum)
Why do some developers code this into forms?
No "save my credentials" prompt from the browser
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 06:28 PM
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 07:28 PM
I'm guessing its to do with cookies, cos theyre stored on the users machine. Whereas if the site uses sessions which are stored on the server theres no reason to prompt the user. I think 
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Posted 31 August 2006 - 03:29 AM
I think it's when the form submission is controlled by Javascript... therefore your browser doesn't detect it and know how to invoke it?
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Posted 31 August 2006 - 06:11 AM
Sirkent, on Aug 31 2006, 09:29 AM, said:
I think it's when the form submission is controlled by Javascript... therefore your browser doesn't detect it and know how to invoke it?
sounds the most plauseable....never seen this kind of thing on the net though....which site?
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Posted 01 September 2006 - 07:39 AM
Whats the advantage of having your forms controlled by javascript?
Now AJAX (we all know what that is) when used still prompts like normal forms which makes it very interesting that the ones Marc is talking about dont.
Now AJAX (we all know what that is) when used still prompts like normal forms which makes it very interesting that the ones Marc is talking about dont.
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Posted 01 September 2006 - 08:11 AM
Well, you can send different information, or perform verification. I agree, it's not the way that things should really be done.
Another situation that I come up with regularly with Opera is where it fills in the fields and submits, but I land back at the login page. I assume this is because the server-side script is looking for the value submitted when the submit button is pushed - which is just wrong again.
Another situation that I come up with regularly with Opera is where it fills in the fields and submits, but I land back at the login page. I assume this is because the server-side script is looking for the value submitted when the submit button is pushed - which is just wrong again.
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Posted 01 September 2006 - 08:34 AM
Does this officially happen with javascript? (I'm looking to move this thread to the appropriate forum).
Bramz, it happens to me at the salliemae.com web site. There are a couple others, but I'm at work and cannot remember them.
Bramz, it happens to me at the salliemae.com web site. There are a couple others, but I'm at work and cannot remember them.
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