big youtube focus-flaw
Due to my silly youtube video, I get a fair amount of youtube messages. When this happens, youtube send me an email which links me to a log in page. I'm supposed to type in my username and password and view the message.
Easy enough, right?
WRONG.
They screwed up their input focus-order somehow. What does this mean? I click "Log In". It asks me to type in my username, which I do. After this, I normally hit "tab", and type in my password. Unfortunately, when you hit tab in the username field, it brings you down to the "email address" field on the sign up form.
What does this mean? This means that if someone is sitting next to me while I'm logging in, and I act like I act on EVERY OTHER LOG IN SCREEN and typing in username, tab, password, enter - that person next to me will see my password in plain-text.
Well done youtube/google.
Nelson says : AH-AH !
i demand a new post. please.
Focus order on web forms is often mangled pretty badly. Nothing new or unusual here.
But I'm wondering, why would you not be looking at your screen as you're typing? You're not looking at your hands are you?
james: of course not :)
i still typed the first few characters of my password before i realized what was going on...
testing...
how can I see what I type in, when I type a password. I.e when I log on to hotmail.com it shows ***** when I type, how can I see what I am typing? INstead of the *****??? please help me babyboynv@hotmail.com