I believe there's more to password masking than protecting against an onlooker. The HTML password field is handled uniquely by your browser: after you submit the form, any return visits to the page using the back button will clear out the password field. A regular text field, however, will have its contents intact.
Since your users do not have e-mail accounts, I suspect they may be using public (or at least shared) computers -- the potential for stealing passwords is significantly higher in such an environment. Unless you can be certain that they'll close their browsers completely after registering, it'll be very risky to input passwords in a plain text field. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Erin Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you think about putting a checkbox labeled "Show password" > or "Unmask" right next to or below the password field, like so: > > Password: [____________] > [ ] Show password > > when you check the Show password checkbox, it unmasks the password > and shows what you typed in. Uncheck the box, the password is masked > again. This might eliminate the need for the Confirm password field. > Mac OS uses this approach in the system preferences, I believe. > > Another idea is to show the password as the user types it, and put a > timer on it, so when they pause for, say 1 second, it then masks the > password. I can see there could be some privacy concerns with this, > but might be worth user testing it. :) > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
