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Posted by Dima Gofman on 12/20/05 20:32
Has any kind of standard been agreed upon (even preliminary) for naming
conventions for field names?
For example Google's search field is called "q", so is MSN's and I
see a lot of sites that provide a search field use name "q" but Yahoo
uses "p".
Obviously having some kind of standard would be very convenient for the
user who has auto-complete enabled which in the case of IE and FireFox
seems to look at field name. So if I'm searching for something on
some site, then go to another search site I wouldn't have to type in
the whole search query again. Same with username and password, I tend
to have the same set for most sites, so after loging in on one site
auto complete will help with loging in on the next.
What name should be used for username and password fields? "username"
and "password"? Google, for example, on the sitemaps login page uses
"Passwd". And Yahoo, for the email log in, uses "login" and "passwd".
Dima
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