Closed Bug 545939 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Usability change to password field design

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 502258

People

(Reporter: almorca, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7

Usability researcher Jakob Nielsen’s recent column advocates a fundamental change to password field design on the web. He believes that the time has come "to show most passwords in clear text as users type them," abandoning the traditional approach that displays a series of asterisks or bullets in place of the actual password.

The simplest solution is to mask the password by default while giving users a way to switch the field to clear text. There could be an option "Show password" by pressing the right button on the field.

Reproducible: Always
Component: General → Layout: Form Controls
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → layout.form-controls
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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