On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Sutherland <asutherl...@asutherland.org> wrote: > Is it reasonable to try and standardize support for an "allow-show-password" > boolean attribute and corresponding allowShowPassword property on HTML > inputs with type=password? There would also be a showPassword property. > When allowShowPassword is true, a checkbox with "Show password" would be > displayed. When showPassword is true, the contents of the password field > would be displayed. (Note: I've done some preliminary web searches > (bugzilla, whatwg lists) and haven't seen real discussion on this, but I > could be wrong/bad at searching.)
I think there would be very little appetite for a "complex" HTML widget which contains both a textfield and a checkbox. The problem is that HTML is absolutely horrible at allowing forms to be styled. And so authors are abandoning using HTML forms at a pretty large scale. This is also why we haven't seen desktop browsers picking up controls like <input type=date> because there's little confidence that authors would use it because they couldn't style it. Until we solve the styling problem, I don't think we should add any more complex form widgets. Sad as that is. To my knowledge no one is working on enabling form controls to be styled. I wish someone would. What *might* be possible is to define a "showPassword" property and attribute. But an important question is, is there enough of a difference between <input type=password showpassword> and <input type=text> that that's worth it? / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
