- From: Tom O'Connor <me@tom.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:17:23 +1000
We would likely end up with some more of these lovely interfaces: https://online.westpac.com.au/ Try using that without a mouse and not going insane/grossly disclosing your input to anyone paying mild attention to your screen. Tom On 11/07/2011 23:29, Sean Connelly wrote: > As a web developer, if I wanted access to the password, I would then avoid > using the<input type="password"> field, and create my own field that reads > characters (perhaps via onkeyup), and fakes a password field visually. > > I also think it's a bad idea to change the behavior of<input > type="password"> because it will break websites that assumed they could read > the value. Perhaps a website checks against a user's past 10 passwords to > see if they are using the same one, via XHR. Or perhaps the entire login > process is XHR. Who knows.
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