Kornel Lesinski wrote:
...
Anyway, it doesn't make sense to duplicate all that functionality in
forms just because typical interface for HTTP authentication is ugly and
unusable. You can fix the interface, and there's proposal for it already
(from 1999!):
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-authentform
I think that proposal is generally a good idea, but the details could be
improved (i.e. should reuse existing forms and input types rather than
creating new ones that can't offer seamless fallback).
...
+1
See also <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/13> (currently in
state "raised").
BR, Julian
