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It’s irritating to me that there’s no standard integration between password managers and authentication elements on a page. We can do this correctly if we want. Furthermore, I’d love some standard programmatic way to change passwords and communicate complexity and rotation timelines. If I use a password manager anyway, it should just deal with changing my password if some organization decides to use a backwards rotation policy with specific special characters.



I agree that there will always be a need due to other bits of information, but IMO if you follow this train of thought for authentication specifically you wind up at "passwordless" WebAuthn.


Sounds like you're describing the Credential Management API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_...




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