Typing it in twice ensures that the user typed it in right the first
time, since he didn't get to see what he typed.
The one that boggles me is when something else on the page is wrong
(like no zip),so it errors and clears the double password. Which you
don't notice and don't reenter, so it errors a second time. Rrrrrrr.
-- Jim
Via my iPhone
On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Nick Gassman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
When you fill in a form to sign up to a website, the password field,
but not the username, is usually asterisked. Is it to avoid the risk
of someone peering over your shoulder?
And sometimes when they aren't asterisked, you have to type the
password in twice, but not the username. What's the rationale for
that?
* Nick Gassman - Usability and Standards Manager - http://ba.com *
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