Hi Elisabeth, I haven't seen this done in a non-mobile web browser natively, but it's possible to reproduce with Javascript (or in Flash with Actionscript) with a bit of effort.
Juggling the user input to progressively mask the text seems unwieldy at first glance but it's entirely possible. Instead of a password field you basically take a normal text field and alter its contents on each keypress, replacing characters with asterisks or a similar placeholder. But then you need to store the actual input in a hidden form field. As I say, unwieldy. >From a design angle, you could also look at the Mac OS X wireless network connection interface. It has a "Show Password" checkbox as mentioned in the Nielsen article. You'd use a similar Javascript technique to achieve this in a browser. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43168 ________________________________________________________________ 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
