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Speaking from personal experience -- over about six years at this point -- there are many, many web sites on the internets that 1Password's autofill works perfe

Speaking from personal experience -- over about six years at this point -- there are many, many web sites on the internets that 1Password's autofill works perfectly well on, and many others where it doesn't work perfectly but fails gracefully (or at least non-destructively). "Here is one site where it makes a mistake that could be catastrophic if you don't catch it" is just not a slam-dunk proof of 1Password being "poorly designed."

IncRnd 6y ago
Ths is an appeal to authority. It is a shortcoming of the product's design for it to autofill a hidden field.
- monkin 6y ago
  It’s visually hidden for us to see, not for 1Password auto fill mechanism.
  - FDSGSG 6y ago
    Which is a problem in the 1Password autofill mechanism. Unless you believe that it should be filling forms which are hidden from humans?
    - monkin 6y ago
      So you want 1Password to check CSS of the form before auto filling? The form itself isn’t hidden it’s styled to be flat. That’s the biggest problem of it.
  - IncRnd 6y ago
    That exactly correct, which is why the fault is with 1Password's fill mechanism. A product has a bug when it does not produce output in-line with its stated purpose and process. Nobody would use a refrigerator that suddenly forgets to keep food cold when a carton of milk is placed on the shelf.
- chipotle_coyote 6y ago
  It is a visible input field styled not to look like an input field until that radio button is selected, but it is not "hidden" in the HTML sense. It is not a shortcoming of the product's design to not have parsed the CSS and intuited that Substack's designers wanted to cleverly make it not look like an input field.
  - FDSGSG 6y ago
    > It is not a shortcoming of the product's design to not have parsed the CSS and intuited that Substack's designers wanted to cleverly make it not look like an input field. How is it not a shortcoming? Any human looking at the page can immediately tell that this form field should not be autofilled. Difficult problem to solve? Sure, doesn't make it any less of a shortcoming.

IncRnd 6y ago

Ths is an appeal to authority. It is a shortcoming of the product's design for it to autofill a hidden field.

monkin 6y ago
It’s visually hidden for us to see, not for 1Password auto fill mechanism.
- FDSGSG 6y ago
  Which is a problem in the 1Password autofill mechanism. Unless you believe that it should be filling forms which are hidden from humans?
  - monkin 6y ago
    So you want 1Password to check CSS of the form before auto filling? The form itself isn’t hidden it’s styled to be flat. That’s the biggest problem of it.
- IncRnd 6y ago
  That exactly correct, which is why the fault is with 1Password's fill mechanism. A product has a bug when it does not produce output in-line with its stated purpose and process. Nobody would use a refrigerator that suddenly forgets to keep food cold when a carton of milk is placed on the shelf.
chipotle_coyote 6y ago
It is a visible input field styled not to look like an input field until that radio button is selected, but it is not "hidden" in the HTML sense. It is not a shortcoming of the product's design to not have parsed the CSS and intuited that Substack's designers wanted to cleverly make it not look like an input field.
- FDSGSG 6y ago
  > It is not a shortcoming of the product's design to not have parsed the CSS and intuited that Substack's designers wanted to cleverly make it not look like an input field. How is it not a shortcoming? Any human looking at the page can immediately tell that this form field should not be autofilled. Difficult problem to solve? Sure, doesn't make it any less of a shortcoming.