[TYPO3-core] RFC #12236: Password-field in "User Settings" is prefilled, which does not make sense

[Rupert Germann]

FYI: committed to trunk rev 6336

greets
rupert


Steffen Gebert schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: Bugfix / UI improvement
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12236
> 
> Branches: trunk
> 
> Problem:
> If you enable auto-fill-out of password-fields in your browser, the 
> browser also fills the password in the first password field in the 
> module "user settings".
> There is no usecase for this behaviour. There are 2 possible cases:
> 1. If you want to change the password, you will want to enter a new one.
> But the browser does not have this new password saved, so auto-filling 
> the old password does not make sense, because it won't work. You will 
> instead have to empty the field manually, which is a needless task.
> 2. If you don't want to change the password, it does not make sense to 
> fill the field either, as you don't want to change anything. If you 
> press save, without filling in the password again in field 2, you get an 
> error...
> 
> So the current behaviour, if auto-filling is enabled, is not really 
> user-friendly
> 
> Solution:
> Add attribute autocomplete="off" to the <input type="password"> [1,2]
> 
> Regards
> Steffen
> 
> [1] 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/How_to_Turn_Off_Form_Autocompletion#How_to_Turn_Off_the_Autocompletion_Feature 
> 
> [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533032(VS.85).aspx
>