It isn’t just Ruby on Rails login forms that are broken. The majority of login forms on the internet are fundamentally broken.
In what appears to be some form of risk management strategy, these login forms introduce a different risk to the websites that use the default behaviors – in RoR sites, this is often either AuthLogic or RestfulAuthentication.
Both are broken in a big way.
Almost on queue, Twitter has recently done (twice!) what I’ve been thinking about lately. They have removed features.
Removing features is very tricky and fraught with problems, even if those features are used by very few people.
I was messing around with the new Photoshop Express gizmo today and I clicked the help link.
It opened a new window to this page which looks like this screenshot (for those who dun wanna click.)
With gmail and fastmail, and other email systems, you can use plus notation to keep track of who is passing around your address. When I sign up for something online, I’ll often use myaddress+domain@fastmail.fm as my address. This address simply works and I receive the wanted email. If they sell/hand over my address, then I’ll know – and there would be hell to pay.
Often reading about economics, foraging for and growing food, playing silent sports, and making software. Also, ping pong!
Often playing with his 7 year old daughter. Mark is a avid runner, into martial arts, and philosophy.
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