- From: Berin Loritsch <bloritsch@apache.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:11:48 -0500
- To: tvraman@almaden.ibm.com, XForms Mailing List <www-forms@w3.org>
"T. V. Raman" wrote: > > the two choices I am presently considering are: > 1) Have a <password>...</password> > element analogous to textbox > > 2) (preference as of last two days) > <textbox echo="*">...</textbox> > (default value of echo echoes chars as you type --echo ="*" > displays '*' echo ="#" displays '#' > > Since you say you're implementing this, what would your > preference be? It's alot easier to map a <xform:password>...</xform:password> to an <input type="password"/>. The other requires a more complicated aproach that not all browsers would support (combining javascript and CSS). In fact, if the second approach were adopted--the only way to be sure that the characters aren't rendered is to test for the "echo" attribute and convert to the <input type="password"/>. That last approach (for converting XForms to XHTML) is limited in functionality because no matter what is specified in "echo", the asterisk will be displayed. Anything else will require a full plugin support for browsers, or worse applet support.
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