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A comment on Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘enter’.

Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by ds9 on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:19PM (#5814488)
This has been possible ever since AJAX appeared. Everyone should always assume it's happening.

Similar in concept to capturing passwords that don't succeed, in case they may be valid for other sites where the user has accounts.

(Note, I don't do either of these things, just saying that people should not be surprised.)

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by yahelc on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:42PM (#5814615)
Well, technically, in this case since the response from the server doesn't matter, this has always been possible. There are lots of pre-AJAX ways to send data to a server from JavaScript, including requesting Images (which is what Google Analytics uses) and generating dynamic iframes.
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