[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Bill Humphries]

On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Tigro Spottystripes wrote:

> The name can still be separated when stored/transmitted, the client  
> and
> other places where you insert your name would simply look for the  
> space
> character and use it to separate things when necessary.

I'll point out that there's a user education/expectation issue. This  
should not be interpreted as *NO* but just that would have to be  
worked through.

Users unfamiliar with Second Life have an expectation that user names  
are a string without spaces, so if I'm Jane Avatar and presented with:

User Name [             ] Password [***********]

I'm not sure if I should be entering:

"Jane Avatar"
"JaneAvatar"

or if there was a separate user name associated with my account that  
I'm now searching for in my registration email confirmation.

Remember that games like WoW have a username and password, and several  
avatar/characters associated with the account so the user may be  
thinking of that model.

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