On 02/17/2011 06:46 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > If there's a way to improve the general login workflow (AJAX, CORS, > whatever), I'd like to see that implemented before this checkbox is ripped > out. I'm not sure, even with dark wizard magic, how you'd easily disable > global login. I suppose a Greasemonkey script might be able to auto-redirect > you on login or something, but that's a nasty Mozilla dependency that only > works per-computer.
We could always remove the checkbox but keep the backend code that handles it. Maybe even replace it with a hidden field and pull its value from the URL, so that one could simply go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin?wpCentralLogin=0 to log in locally only. (In any case, the way API login is currently implemented, I don't think we can easily make this available via the API without also keeping the backend available via the web UI.) Regarding AJAX login, I agree that it would be nice and probably something the usability folks ought to look at. I've seen several third party implementations, and even written a JS-only one myself: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:AJAXLogin.js -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
