In practice, it is not practical to echo '*' when entering a password. You
in fact should show the text character to make sure the grafitti engine made
the right letter. However, if you are having a form come up with a
password, then you should put up the '*'s since it could have been done by
someone that doesn't have the password.
Steve
>From: Igor Mozolevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re:Simulating passwd text box
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 06:59:38 -0700
>
>
>
>--On 13 July 2001 08:38 -0400 Sumita Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>Why can't we look for a simpler solution tha n goin to FONTS n all?
>Blah... blah... blah...
>
>Why bother hiding input at all? How big is the screen? How many other
>people would physically be able to see what you input in the field? Is it
>justtified in terms of a) effor to do so; and b) discomfort to the user? I
>personally find it really annoying when I enter the password with graffity
>and it gets masked, so to make sure I enter what I really mean I always
>have to fire up the keyboard...
>
>IM :-)
>
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