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Re:Safari tries to fill username by Retric on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:28AM (#27314559)
Careful. Filling out a long form isn’t 15 minutes of inactivity, but a huge range of websites assume it is.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by hallway_monitor on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:57AM (#27314826)
PTSD causes me to copy and paste big blocks of text out of a text area before submitting every time.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by ta988 on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:17AM (#27314979)
sounds like what an extension could do. store in localstorage the last hour of forms. I especially hate clicking submit to get an error and an empty form again.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by alistairSH on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:52AM (#27315306)
Ugh, a form that takes 15 minutes or more to fill out, without any feedback or other interaction, is itself a UX problem. It should at least be auto-saving.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by egypturnash on Friday May 28, 2021 @10:49AM (#27315994)
More likely it will have a “submit” button that runs a script that blocks submission wen you missed a field. And wipes out a couple of other fields (usually passwords) so that you have to re-enter those after hitting that “submit” button again.
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