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That 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 the
by city41 15y ago
That 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.