Personal blog. Mostly photos.Tumblr (3.0; @danielpietzsch)https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kri1n8bjrQ1qa3r7do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.abtests.com/">ABTests.com</a> is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account.</p> <p>I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html">Stop Password Masking</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.</p> </blockquote> <p>They use two input fields to do this - one of type=“password” and one of type=“text”. They hide/show them according to whether the checkbox it ticked or not:</p> <pre><code><label for="id_password1">I want my password to be <input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" /> <input type="text" class="" style="display: none;"> </label> <input id="show-password" type="checkbox" class="show-password"> <label for="show-password" id="show-password-label">Show password</label> </code></pre> <p>Do you know of other websites that do this?</p>https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/post/212751676https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/post/212751676Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:11:00 +0200uxpassword maskinglinkssoftware development