Safari tries to fill username

Re:Safari tries to fill username by brandrick on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:50AM (#27313445)

The assumption here that this is being triggered because Safari assumes any page with this phrase must be a login page sounds plausible (if odd) to me.

However, anecdotally I imagine there will be an uptick in sites using similars phrases — as following easing of Covid restrictions around the world even little brick and mortar stores will be making such welcoming statements on/across their homepages. :D

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Re:Safari tries to fill username by knorthfield on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:55AM (#27313494)

Exactly, and isn't it likely to be used equally as a post login phrase? Which is how I discovered this "bug" in the first place!

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Re:Safari tries to fill username by pilsetnieks on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:18AM (#27313644)

This smacks of a special case processing for some specific site. I suspect there's some wildly popular service which presents a page with just a password input for returning users who haven't logged in for a while but still have their cookies/sessions active; the page is oddly coded and the standard approach doesn't work so it needs this workaround; and the page is valuable enough for Apple users that this was deemed reasonable.

The first comment threads are all echoing derision of Safari as a janky browser but I feel that this is something that could be dissected 20 years later in a Raymond Chen-like blog [1] with how they had to painstakingly add a workaround in a newer version somewhere deep inside to make some questionable piece of software not crash or something.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

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