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Re: Show HN: FormFiller – A JavaScript bookmarklet for repopulating forms

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Post by mikeaag » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

ssttoo wrote: post #9

mikeaag wrote: post #2

Hey all, I'm Mike, one of the guys behind FormFiller. We made FormFiller to scratch our own itch, but thought others might find some use out of it as well. (You can read more about how it came about at http://wearecontrast.com/2015/07/month-5-introducing-formfil... ) Would love to hear your feedback on how we can make it better. Cheers, Mike :D

http://www.phpied.com/form-auto-fill-bookmarklet/ My take on the problem from 2006 :) Mike, hope your project can pick up an idea or two

Hey, thanks for the comment.

I find it crazy that you created that 9 years ago!

FormFiller doesn't currently support auto filling the form with data, but it's definitely something i've considered for the future. I've saved that post and will give it another read when I get around to adding that functionality in.

Cheers, Mike

Re: Show HN: FormFiller – A JavaScript bookmarklet for repopulating forms

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Post by ablativenotion » Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 2:26 AM UTC

mikeaag wrote: post #10

ablativenotion wrote: post #8

This seemed familiar to me and I recalled this: http://www.benjaminkeen.com/open-source-projects/smaller-pro... It is the first hit in Google for 'form filler bookmarklet'. Any noteworthy differences between yours and that? (Honest question, no snark intended.)

I'll be honest, once I decided I needed a solution, and that browser extensions weren't an option, I didn't really try that hard to find a bookmark alternative as I figured I could create something to do the job fairly quickly. The first version of FormFiller was written in about 30 minutes over the course of 2 lunch breaks and it did what I needed it to (though not very elegantly. It send the generated JS bookmark c…

Fair enough. I haven't tested either one recently, but here is a dump of some past notes I took about improving the other one, as food for thought.

* put focus on submit button

* offer option during creation to auto-sumbit the form. trigger click event on the submit button.

* detect wrong form and alert user something like "This form does not seem to be the same form that was saved. Try anyway?"

Re: Show HN: FormFiller – A JavaScript bookmarklet for repopulating forms

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Post by mikeaag » Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 10:44 AM UTC

ablativenotion wrote: post #12

mikeaag wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be honest, once I decided I needed a solution, and that browser extensions weren't an option, I didn't really try that hard to find a bookmark alternative as I figured I could create something to do the job fairly quickly. The first version of FormFiller was written in about 30 minutes over the course of 2 lunch breaks and it did what I needed it to (though not very elegantly. It send the generated JS bookmark c…

Fair enough. I haven't tested either one recently, but here is a dump of some past notes I took about improving the other one, as food for thought. * put focus on submit button * offer option during creation to auto-sumbit the form. trigger click event on the submit button. * detect wrong form and alert user something like "This form does not seem to be the same form that was saved. Try anyway?"

Thanks for the notes, will definitely take them on board. Auto-submit is probably going to be the first feature that gets added. I currently have a separate bookmarklet for it, but it's much easier if it's just part of the generated bookmarklet.