While I agree that the "Enter your email again to confirm" is problematic fr a number of reasons (power users will cut and paste, forms fill-in will fill in the first correctly leaving the second empty which the user can then fill in incorrectly and double entry being close enough to error recovery to up the chance of error and so forth) I think there are benefits to double entry of the asterisked out password.
As Calvin points out, the software may apply different rules to type=password and type=text fields resulting in inaccessible accounts due to the inclusion at registration time of characters that are filtered out at login time. Thus using the same format both times serves as something of a test. Likewise, I think, Insuring that the user can repeatably enter the password blind is an important test. As users are ncouraged to use more complex and strong passwords they are more likely to create password that they cannot enter without visual feedback. Anecdotally, I know I've been saved from being too clever for my own good in creating passwords that I cannot type as evidenced by failing to do so twice at registration time. Of course the real way to answer what works is user testing, but so long as we're giving opinions, I thought I would lobby for the uniqueness both in terms of software filtering and user reproducibility for double entry of passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32617 ________________________________________________________________ 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
