<story><title>The Worst Website in the Entire World</title><url>https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>I would think management can&amp;#x27;t be that adamant about not letting users copy-and-paste... I would also think front end folks should try saying &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to at least some of those silly requests</text></item><item><author>fkyoureadthedoc</author><text>&amp;gt; Hey front-end folks, just a quick note. Never ever ever ever ever mess with my browser. It&amp;#x27;s not yours, it&amp;#x27;s mine. I&amp;#x27;m letting you use it for free to render your bloated sites.&lt;p&gt;As if any front end developer came up with this. Anyone who has ever had job in the industry knows this is straight from management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbolino</author><text>Large corporate&amp;#x2F;government IT lives on another plane of existence. Rules are made in some far-flung office and enforced through edicts that can&amp;#x27;t be challenged, partly because nobody knows exactly who created them, partly because nobody wants to stand out, and partly because yes-men surround the upper levels of management.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, somebody somewhere about a decade ago seems to have injected into the heads of such rule-makers that users who paste their password confirmations defeat the purpose of the confirmation mechanism, which was leading to excess support requests for forgotten passwords. So, therefore, pasting into the confirmation box (or even better, both boxes) should be disabled.&lt;p&gt;Never mind that password rules have gotten more complex, that allowing users to temporarily preview their passwords instead is now recommended, or that the use of password managers and online password resets means even if the original concern were valid, it&amp;#x27;s now moot. The rule exists, and so it must be followed.&lt;p&gt;At some point these corporations do lurch forward (or die), so eventually this will get changed, but it&amp;#x27;ll happen way slower than it should.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Worst Website in the Entire World</title><url>https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>I would think management can&amp;#x27;t be that adamant about not letting users copy-and-paste... I would also think front end folks should try saying &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to at least some of those silly requests</text></item><item><author>fkyoureadthedoc</author><text>&amp;gt; Hey front-end folks, just a quick note. Never ever ever ever ever mess with my browser. It&amp;#x27;s not yours, it&amp;#x27;s mine. I&amp;#x27;m letting you use it for free to render your bloated sites.&lt;p&gt;As if any front end developer came up with this. Anyone who has ever had job in the industry knows this is straight from management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I do some front end work.  I push back on things and win some battles re-directing them, but ultimately if the client pays to do a stupid thing, they get the stupid thing.  It is their website, not mine.</text></comment>