Posted by Dima Gofman on 12/21/05 14:35

Search is just one example, there are also usernames, passwords, email
addresses, names etc. Every time you sign up for something you're
asked your email address, I type it in the first time, next time I only
type in the first letter. Security risk is completely irrelevant to
this question. It's my choice to take that risk, if you personally
don't want to take that risk - that's your own personal business.

How can you seriously say that standardising field names is crackers,
almost any kind of standardisation is an improvement (except of course
artistic fields where uniqueness is valued)

there's a lot of client side software that helps filling in forms etc.
and whether you think it's a good idea to use them or not is
irrelevant, point is people use these things and I for one would like
to make it easier for those people to use my sites especially since at
the same time it doesn't hurt those that prefer not to use these
utilities.

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