> Have you considered not masking the password at all? Is it really necess=
ary
> on a handheld device? Having a password swiped over your shoulder is a l=
ot
> less of a danger on a 4-inch screen compared to a 17-inch screen. Also, =
if
> you mask it then you should have two fields, just like in a desktop app, =
to
> catch typos. With a keyboard that's ok but with Graffiti, I'd be really
> annoyed to have to blindly Graffiti the same thing in twice. Just my
> US$.02.
>=20
> -slj-
>I tend to agree here. Personally, I don't use much password protection at
>all, cause my palm is always with me. But, it's a lot easier to tell if
>someone's reading over your shoulder on your Palm than it is on a monitor.
Yeah, I agree with that. I usually make a keyboard out of push buttons
for login/key entry screens, and I've found it's much easier to tell
people to NOT use Graffiti or the system keyboard than to tell them they
have to. The only downside is that you can't fit as many keys on one
screen as you can by using the system keyboard (Unless you put a button
on to load your own number pad, and just switch forms and save the data
in a global temporarily). Graffiti is hard enough for beginners to learn,
let alone masking out the characters while they write them. If there are
keys right there on the screen, chances are that the user will use them.
If someone needed to mask out data ON the system keyboard, you're looking
at something more like a hack or custom font type thing than not, and that's
not always the best idea for something that vanilla.
-Rus
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