Saturday, December 8, 2007

Beta login screen

Looks like this:


Normal screen, on the other hand, is much more googly, graphic laden and instruction driven, looks like that:


So, blogger, confess: Why make the two different? Any deep meaning behind such difference?

The meaning for me is that in the beta screen my browser is able to remember field values, so when I type in the first letter of my user name, it helpfully offers to fill all the rest. Just clock enter and you are blogging. With the standard blogger screen no such luck - firefox doesn't catch the fields, no reminder is offered. Although, as far as I can tell, logging into either takes you to the same feature-rich BETA place rather than the standard blogger edition, if you're signed up for beta blogger, that is.

And by the way, why is the standard login field undetected by firefox or other Mozilla-based browsers (just like login to Yahoo! Mail)? Granted, haven't tried IE or even Safari, Seamonkey or Camino, nor have I tried any toolbars featuring form auto-complete, such as those offered by google or yahoo, but still. Was this undetectability intentional? Is it possible to make the fields detectable?

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