autocapitalize=”off” on login inputs…
A little over a week ago I drove from Cincinnati up to Indiana and attended the re:build 2011 conference. While Brad Colbow presented on how it’s the little things in design that adds up and shows you really care.
I noticed him stating when he logged into a website from a tablet computer he would have to make sure to lowercase the first character so he could login, however he then noticed at somepoint they added autocapitalize=”off” to the textbox which prevent the mobile browser on the tablet from capitalizing by default.
I made sure to make note of that since I wasn’t aware of it; but as I thought of it - it seemed odd… Personally, I think it’s odd that a website would make a screen name case sensitive - People have been known to hit capslock and type full emails messages - chances are they will have capslock on and type in their screen name, they might notice it and remove capslock and then type their password normally.
While I understand that a password should be case sensitive, I don’t view the same for the screen name (which sometimes is also the email address). While adding the autocapitalize=”off” might prevent woes it, it seems that the case sensitive user name is more of an error in the application’s logic.
On that note - it makes sense that one might want to turn autocapitalize off in some inputs (and if the developer doesn’t have access to the backend then it’s understandable) so by being able to add autocapitalize=”off” or autocorrect=”off” such as <input autocapitalize=”off” autocorrect=”off” type=”text” value=”” /> is useful. Just some small thoughts.
