Direct link to Github: <a href="https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources</a><p>Seems like a good idea, instead of every password manager trying to re-implement the same kind of edge cases. One day I hope we can just "muss change" password because sites follow a common theme like <a href="https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/index.html</a> - but maybe we have a better strategy than passwords until then.
The idea of reading a password manager reading a website's password rules (which they are calling "quirks" apparently) is a great idea as the app would then know what the controlling parameters are (15 characters, must have an upper, a lower, and three special characters) when it auto-generates a password. Since I started using KeePassXC I've been shocked at how many websites -- especially financial institutions! -- don't allow you to use 64 character long passwords using multiple "special characters" (why would you make a password rule that says I can only use five select non-number, non-letter characters and only "one to three" of said characters?)...
I feel like this would be better as a Well-Known URI, for example /.well-known/password-manager.json with similar format to the repo – That way it's not up to Apple to decide what goes in the repository
I’ll say it. This is kind of a joke.<p>Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it, and built an active community who contributed, or if it was more than 100 websites long.<p>But the heavy publicity push seems a bit early. And, it feels like Apple’s announcement is little more than “hey guys, check out this POC repo!”.<p>It kinda feels like Apple doesn’t get OSS.