On 05/03/2013 11:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Are you refering to someone ther than the person who is looking at the screen while typing in their password? Surely the person doing that will know it is visible and not enter it while someone is obviously looking at their screen.
It may not be obvious at all. While you don't have necessarily have anyone sitting right next to you, it would be visible in the screen. A password shown in the screen is far more visible compared to someone having to overlook the keyboard. Users don't expect any UI to show the entire password and this UI change would come as a unpleasant surprise especially if they are looking at the keyboard while typing which many users do. Well, sure, once they realize it, they can retype a new password in private but why would we make them go through that pain unnecessarily? That is pretty awful for usability.
It is *very* useful to be able to see the password you are typing at times when there is no such privacy concern but this is precisely why some password fields have a "show password" checkbox but not as the default behavior.
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