- From: John J. Barton <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:06:23 -0800
- To: XForms Mailing List <www-forms@w3.org>
At the risk of clouding this discussion on passwords, here is a different perspective. The XFORMs goal is to separate presentation, logic, and data. Shouldn't the "data" representation for a password different than "string"? Yes I suppose a few million passwords have been sent as "string" (clear text), but at least we could contemplate encrypted text as the default for a new world of XFORMs. If XFORMs has a special type for currency, wouldn't one for passwords be ok? If one had a datatype password, then various presentations can fill such slots. One presentation could be textbox. The user agent would be obligated to apply "*" over inputs to any textbox that solicits input for type "password". Another presentation could be a table of buttons like an ATM keyboard. John. ______________________________________________________ John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100
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