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I've always found it weird when a form admonishes you for writing spaces or dashes in e.g. a phone number or credit card number. Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't like them!
a password with a space at the end would be broken in many systems.
Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work. (saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some reason the JS is handling raw keys rather than processed characters)
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
I'm guessing someone at some point thought that preventing copy and paste would stop bots, then everyone copied them.
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a password with a space at the end would be broken in many systems.
Does anyone even use passwords with spaces? I've always wanted to try and find out how many sites can't handle it.
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
> It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately Anecdotally, this seems to be the case on the majority of websites where I have to use such 2FA codes.
> So statistically speaking I’m surprised that this bug hasn’t been noticed and fixed yet! I'm not so surprised, given that you cannot write support tickets if the bug prevents you from registering... Also, I don't think people have high hopes that a broken government website will ever get fixed.
Yes, for every time a bug like this is discovered and reported, there are probably hundreds of times when someone else just gave up or found a work around after much frustration. I'm frequently astonished by how terrible and buggy modern software can get away with being and still survive. Working around bugs to accomplish what I need to accomplish is so normal to me now that I sometimes don't even notice how terrible…
If you have an issue with an open source software, you need to register on a website that is made for developers, that will try to sell you a git hosting service, write a bug following a technical format, and you are expected to given information in a reproducible way.
If you have an issue with a closed source freeware, you just use a contact form on their website or leave a comment on their blog or whatever.
The amount of friction to report a bug that FLOSS puts on users is absolutely insane. It's almost like it's trying to deny anyone who isn't a technical person from reporting problems they are having.
I've always found it weird when a form admonishes you for writing spaces or dashes in e.g. a phone number or credit card number. Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't like them!
In Canada our postal codes are formatted: X#X #X# Where X is a letter and # is a digit. The amount of forms, even on government websites that can't do the unfathomably complicated logic of stripping the space if it doesn't want it is baffling. Regarding your credit card example, in my password manager where I paste my credit card number from, I added a no-spaces copy of the number for me to paste in because practical…
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a password with a space at the end would be broken in many systems.
Does anyone even use passwords with spaces? I've always wanted to try and find out how many sites can't handle it.
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Yes, for every time a bug like this is discovered and reported, there are probably hundreds of times when someone else just gave up or found a work around after much frustration. I'm frequently astonished by how terrible and buggy modern software can get away with being and still survive. Working around bugs to accomplish what I need to accomplish is so normal to me now that I sometimes don't even notice how terrible…
One problem I notice with FLOSS is this. If you have an issue with an open source software, you need to register on a website that is made for developers, that will try to sell you a git hosting service, write a bug following a technical format, and you are expected to given information in a reproducible way. If you have an issue with a closed source freeware, you just use a contact form on their website or leave a c…
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Does anyone even use passwords with spaces? I've always wanted to try and find out how many sites can't handle it.
If you're living the passphrase life then spaces make them easier to type.