Logging on to my pseudo-bank’s website, and I accidentally hit the caps-lock key when tabbing from “Account number” to “PIN”. I was vaguely aware of doing this — I do it fairly frequently, after all — but I wouldn’t have been able to tell from typing because the PIN field is “TYPE=PASSWORD” and hence conceals your input behind a sequence of — on my browser — dots.
Except — and here’s the cool part — that a little “shift-up” sort of icon thingy appeared at the right side of the text box in question. I’m imagining that I’m not the only person who hits Caps Lock along with Tab, and the friendly folks at web support for this institution got tired of asking people to check. Hence, a very pretty little solution.
By contrast — by which I mean, “On another subject entirely that’s only barely thematically related to this one” — I was recently going through my archive files and made the unpleasant discovery that the “break into paragraphs” feature that Blogger allows is more BReak and less Paragraph, if you follow me. This displeases me, because I’m a bit of a purist about formatting languages. So I’m considering doing something drastic, like migrating to some other system.
As it happens, I started writing a home-brewed blog software complex a couple of months ago, back before I had to learn Calc 2 at long last. Now that my semester is almost over, maybe I can get back to that & solve my problem that way.