[wp-hackers] Forget Commenter's Info

[Mark Jaquith]

You've swayed me.  I say handle it the way MT handles (or... handled, at 
least) it.  By default, "remember me" is unchecked.  If the user wants 
their login saved, they check the "remember me" box before logging in.  
That's a pretty universal way of doing it on the web, and one I think 
people are used to.

Alex King wrote:

> http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep1998/nf80929b.htm
>
> 1. Eliminate options. Often, engineers and designers can't agree on 
> the best way to perform a task. When this happens, their first 
> tendency is to make it an option, allowing both methods. An example of 
> this is the "overstrike" and "insert" modes for entering text from a 
> keyboard. How many times have users accidentally hit the "Insert" key 
> and not have a clue why text starts disappearing as they type! An 
> abundance of preferences and options makes great feature lists on 
> packages, but these "features" are confusing to users and rarely used. 
> Good design is like good editing, eliminate the extraneous, leave only 
> the essential. It is difficult to do.
>
> --Alex