Suggestion: crowdsourced login form filling out

aharpole

I love using 1Password to remember my passwords, but sometimes it just doesn't do a very good job of figuring out which fields to fill in and I have to correct it myself. Seeing 1Password's vastly improved popularity, this gave me an idea: [i]what if 1Password had a database of a variety of web sites and the forms found there and knew which field was which?[/i]



Previously this might not have been practical given the number of sites out there that need login. I don't know how many users 1P has right now, but I bet we have enough now that there can be some sort of crowdsourced mechanism that enabled 1Password to know which field in particular to fill in to log into a web page.



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Ben

Hi aharpole,



This is a really cool idea, but it really just isn't possible to actually tell 1P about specific websites. I don't even have any concept of the number of websites that are out there... the number is mind boggling. It's probably bigger than the US National Debt, and we all know how ridiculously large that is. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Instead what we do is create algorithms that guess which fields are the appropriate ones. That way we have a few lines of code, versus a huge database of all websites. We're always working to improve this algorithm, and giving us specifics about sites that don't work goes a long ways towards helping us with that.