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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
by brandrick 5y ago
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
- knorthfield 5y agoExactly, 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!
- pilsetnieks 5y agoThis 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/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/