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Agreed — I don't understand how this is much help. Furthermore, it was confusing to me until I understood what it was doing, and — when I did — I similarly thou
by codyrobbins 17y ago
Agreed — I don't understand how this is much help. Furthermore, it was confusing to me until I understood what it was doing, and — when I did — I similarly thought, 'Why isn't it just telling me when the passwords match?'
Your average user is going to be completely perplexed by this and have no idea what it's even for. I would argue that this is far less usable for the average user than the old-fashioned implementation of clicking 'Submit', doing a non-AJAX round-trip, and then displaying a message that the passwords don't match.
- Huppie 17y agoThe idea behind this program is probably not to show you when your passwords 'match' but to show you whether your password is correct. E.g. If you see the colors of your password everytime you log in, you will probably learn that your password is correctly typed if you see the colours purple-green-olive. Whenever you spell your password incorrect (and thus see 'blue-pink-black' for instance) you will notice it immediately, without pressing the 'login' button and being presented with a (not so nice) "Invalid username/password" screen.
- jay_kyburz 17y agoYeah, but its such an insignificant problem, why add the complexity of this solution.