[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

Tigro Spottystripes tigrospottystripes at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 16:47:47 PDT 2009


I think this would be a good time to bring up
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-968 ' merge "First name" and "Last
name" into "Full name" '

Melinda Green escreveu:
> Mike Monkowski wrote:
>   
>> Cypren Christenson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> * The use of a combo box for the first field, with selection setting
>>> the contents of multiple fields, may be confusing. Any other options
>>> here that would be more intuitive while also keeping the aesthetic
>>> sensibility of the existing login screen would be welcome.
>>>     
>>>       
>> How about auto completion?
>>   
>>     
>
> Hey, that's a great idea! It would require a tricky special 
> implementation of auto-complete that would offer matching first+last 
> name pairs and then on acceptance would separate them to fill in the 
> other text boxes, but that UI would likely be more natural to a new user 
> than an editable drop-down field. This still requires a way for users to 
> erase entries from the list but I think my previous suggestion of tying 
> that action to unchecking the "remember password" check box might work.
>
>   
>>> * Possible security concerns with the characters selected for the
>>> delimiters. With LLPanel::childSetPrevalidate to filter characters
>>> from input, the worst-case scenario seems to be that a malicious user
>>> could edit settings files and induce boost::tokenizer to fail to parse
>>> the string correctly. In that event, we would simply clear the
>>> relevant fields. Are there other concerns I'm missing?
>>>     
>>>       
>> I think the settings are FirstName and LastName.  I don't see the 
>> password in the settings file.  But instead of mashing everything 
>> together, you could create setting called FirstNameAlt1, FirstNameAlt2, 
>> LastNameAlt1, LastNameAlt2, ...  You'd have to make sure that you move 
>> the names up the list when one gets deleted, otherwise you wouldn't know 
>> where to stop, since I don't think the settings lookup allows a wildcard.
>>     
>
> This would be new data. I like Cypren's suggestion to mash it all 
> together into a single (new) string value rather than as separate 
> settings and/or places that would only need to be gathered all together 
> anyway. For compatibility, I suppose it could look for the old 
> First/Last Name settings when the new setting is not found but I don't 
> see that as important.
>
> Good luck!
> -Melinda
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