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Auto-sanitize user URL input #21

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lorennorman opened this issue Oct 24, 2019 · 0 comments
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Auto-sanitize user URL input #21

lorennorman opened this issue Oct 24, 2019 · 0 comments

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lorennorman commented Oct 24, 2019

"What's your Twitter username?"

Goals:

  • Developer Usability:
    • easy to create URL forms
    • easy to use later as text or links or whatever
  • End-User Usability:
    • good labels and placeholders
    • permissiveness: accept and normalize lots of potential inputs
    • good error detection and error messages when permissiveness fails

Permissiveness examples:

...should all resolve to:

https://twitter.com/lorennorman

Existing gems? Roll our own?

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