[whatwg] RFC: <input type="username">

[Jonas Sicking]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Use cases:
>> 1) A screen reader that sees a form with a type=username and a
>> password field. The screen reader could just ask "Log in to this site?
>> [y/n]?". No further context would be needed.
>> 2) UAs can more easily discover login forms and offer things such as
>> Firefox's Account Manager [1] or a "remember me" feature
>> 3) Currently autofill for usernames looks for something like
>> id="username" or name="username". However on certain websites this
>> fails. Furthermore some websites offer a "find other members" feature
>> where you could type in a username. I've often seen these fields
>> filled in automatically with my name.
>> 4) I'm sure there are others....
>>
>> The proposal:
>> A type="username" is added to the input element. type="username" would
>> MUST only be used for the name that is used to log in to the site. It
>> MUST NOT be used for registration forms or anything else that requires
>> a username. A form MAY have up to one (but not more) type="username"
>> input field.
>>
>> [1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/accountmanager/
>>
>
> I think this idea is halfway to what I'd want to see. Namely, we
> should add an <input type="login"> field that triggers a
> powerbox/dialog (much like the <input type="file"> dialog) that can
> collect whatever sort of credentials are needed (username / password,
> two-factor auth, FB connect credentials, OpenID/OAuth credentials,
> etc.). I agree that it should probably build on top of the Account
> Manager spec.
>
> I think the whole login process needs to be taken as out of page as
> possible. Unfortunately, the auto-login mechanism in Mozilla's
> prototype is probably too out of page, and so there should be a way to
> trigger the login from an in-page element (hence the above).

For what it's worth, I'm not terribly interested in adding more to the
patchwork that is the online login experience that is today. I'm much
more interested in something like this:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-to-firefox/

/ Jonas