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Auto fill likes to put a space after the name that often will make these forms freak out.
Not always. My mortgage company uses a software where it treats the password as invalid if it’s autofilled. I have to copy and paste the password into the box to remove the error.
Why people and companies need to make things purposefully difficult is beyond me. This shit is decades old and solved. Yet, they’re still constantly broken.
What usually works is adding a character at the end of the autofilled password and then removing it
My old bank would not allow pasted passwords, nor autofill. For a while PayPal was the same way.
Many password managers have a function where they can fill the password by sending key presses for troublesome sites like that.
https://github.com/marcos10pc/dont-f--with-paste-bookmark
Don't fuck with paste - a bookmarklet for those occasions.
Security theater. "Look, boss, i made thing more secure!"
From my experience, I think this also happens because of badly written code, where it tries to detect user input to do validation, but it handles events incorrectly and sees autofill as invalid.
I found that a lot of banks reject it unless both of the fields have been active inputs.
So do the auto fill, then click each field so it thinks they were both used, then click login.
Dumb, but two of my financial institutions require it.
Spaces are valid within names.
Are they valid after names? I mean I suppose they could be, but how could you ever, and I mean ever, write out the name in that case?
No but the software should just remove excess whitespace instead of complaining
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
11 i thought all alphabets have been encoded in Unicode?
15 Murica and Brazil have no rules whatsoever so i guess it can happen.
some people don't even have a native writing system so i guess their name is not canonically mapped in unicode characters either. every attempt to write it down is just an approximation.
thing.trim()
Who are you to judge that my name isn't valid? I can be " Bart 2" if I want to be.
Does your name include the quotes? >.>
only one of them obviously
Only the last one
what if my name has a space at the end though?
Or this https://youtu.be/nq-dchJPXGA
Also, happy cake day!
Couldn't you just make it so the text box doesn't accept spaces to prevent that? Why allow a character to be input that makes the field invalid?
Yeah, that's also a bad idea, there's plenty of (mostly none-western) forenames that contain spaces, and plenty of surnames that contain spaces all over the world (Charles de Gaul, Guy Manuel de Hommen-baron)
All they really need to do is to onSubmit do a .trim() to the name
Because even if a space at the end of the name should be considered invalid, people can have names with spaces inside.
This is true. I know someone with a legal first name that's two words. He's a kid I work with. His parents made a point that his name isn't one or the other, it's both, and we are to address him as such.
To my understanding (as a non-tech person who consumes tech-related media), name fields are commonly culturally biased. Usually it impacts last names, which can vary in size and layout across the world, sometimes including hyphens (which some systems don't like either.) Super short or long names also run into problems. Not everyone has one first name, one middle name, and one last name, but a lot of systems aren't designed to handle that kind of variation.
There's a lot with "name must be 3 or more characters" for example
Nah, backend is hard, and they only know JS.
As a primarily backend engineer, I think the opposite here. The backend makes sense, JS is just a nightmare.
From the typical web developer' view of course. They don't even know the
<form><input type="submit">thing anymore nowadays, neither the people who developed their framework. Can't apply for a job, because the js-form has a bug!