Re: Form editor question

Brillo! You just lowered my blood pressure by some miniscule, but
non-zero, amount:-)

Thanks,
S.

Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Hey Stephen,
> 
> Totally irrelevant to the standards discussion, and purely as a Fun 
> Friday Firefox Fact: if you ever want to delete a particular form-filler 
> entry in Firefox, when the item is selected in the drop down, just hit 
> shift-delete.  That should go for form items in general and logins in 
> particular.  And yes, it's terribly undiscoverable.  But it's there!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> J
> 
> On 18-Jan-08, at 5:54 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is anywhere in scope, but just noticed it again
>> so maybe worth asking.
>>
>> Most form editors don't seem to allow for selective deletions of
>> stuff remembered (or I don't know how to find that). For example,
>> the 1st time I used an issue tracker (for an IETF thing) I
>> mistyped my name, so now I always have to pick between the
>> correct and incorrect spelling when logging in. Apparently
>> the only option to get rid of the bad spelling is to nuke
>> all the stored stuff which isn't good.
>>
>> Bit OT I guess, but could be a privacy issue, if an employee
>> had entered some search terms she didn't want her employer
>> to see I suppose.
>>
>> So I guess my question is should we have a sentence somewhere
>> like "Users SHOULD be able to manage individual items of
>> data stored by form fillers and similar, e.g. being able to
>> delete individual entries rather than entire lists."
>>
>> S.
>>
>>
> 
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Received on Friday, 18 January 2008 13:11:23 UTC