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Of course, my preferred solution to this problem is to allow the user to toggle the password field, so that they can view the unobscured text if they wish.
by jawns 15y ago
Of course, my preferred solution to this problem is to allow the user to toggle the password field, so that they can view the unobscured text if they wish.
- ColdAsIce 15y agoAnd anybody behind them as well.
- city41 15y agoThat would require the user to be quite vigilante when they are entering a password on a website. Getting up to go to the bathroom could mean someone steals their password.
- qntm 15y agoGetting up to go to the bathroom between typing in the password and hitting Enter?
- burgerbrain 15y agoWhat if you hit the back button until their browser goes back to the login page, likely with the form still filled out?
- alexmuller 15y agoTested Firefox and Chrome, they both clear the password field but leave the username. I'd be interested to hear if there is a browser that leaves the password field intact.
- burgerbrain 15y agoMy comment is in response to the discussion about this: "Of course, my preferred solution to this problem is to allow the user to toggle the password field, so that they can view the unobscured text if they wish" I am assuming that if the password field is being toggled, that it is not actually a password field but rather a regular text field with some javascript stuff messing around to hide the text. That would probably function just like a username field. I'm not really a web developer though, so it is possible my analysis isn't correct.
- alexmuller 15y agoI tested using the login form on huffduffer.com, which does exactly that.
- burgerbrain 15y agoAh, fair enough. It seems you can make a password field display the password after all.
- simonbrown 15y agoSomeone could just use the dev tools to change the password field into an input field.