Moving from the big picture to the small picture, I gave the current auto-fill behavior of the browser a little more thought, and decided I consider aspects of the current implementation to be a bug.
I consider features that can easily cause you to lose data to be bad and wrong, and the current auto-fill behavior falls right into this definition. The current auto-fill behavior will put data into any field it recognizes. In doing this, it will replace existing data if there is any – often without the user even noticing. This is what caused the problem with Tasks Pro™, the browser overwrote the existing username of a user with the auto-fill information it had.
I checked and there is already an open bug for this issue, please take a moment to vote for it.
Thanks for looking for the bug … I voted for it as well.
http://www.photoworks.com‘s login page has this annoying problem too.
Sam D
You mean the browser’s annoying problem affects the poor Photo Works folks.
Voted. Nice bug.
Encountered this bug using Firefox for Linux. Went to Bugzilla to vote and it claims that the bug has been fixed. I used Konqueror instead of Firefox to manage the user account and encountered no problems. So this seems to be a Firefox issue. My suggestion is that the error message in UseTasks should warn of this bug and advice users to either change the autofill, or use a different browser (at least to manage accounts).
Since this is fixed for Firefox 2, I probably won’t be adding any code to handle this browser-specific bug.