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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by solatic on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:43PM (#12944847)
Case insensitivity is pretty Anglocentric. Much more interesting would be keyboard layout insensitivity. As an Israeli developer, if my password is, say, asdf, then from a usability viewpoint it would do me wonders if שדגכ would also be accepted, as I'll be writing something in Hebrew, switch to a different page, click a link that brings me to a login page where my username is saved, whoops just entered my password on the Hebrew layout by accident.

Reporting caps lock usage and not also keyboard layout usage is a pretty bad usability hole IMO.

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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by eropple on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:38PM (#12945522)
I've been out of the web game for a while - does the browser report what your keyboard layout is?
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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by DCoder on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:51PM (#12945590)
Browser language preferences, yes. Keyboard layout, no. For one thing, layout names vary between OSes, for another, custom keyboard layouts are a thing... However, you can try and read individual keypress events and see which printable characters are generated for which key codes.
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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by gumby on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:13PM (#12946798)
FWIW on my iphone I use the English layout (qwertyuiop) for all roman-alphabet languages I use, since spelling correction language is connected to the declared "language" (a strange yet sensible overloading).
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