On 12/12/14 2:59 PM, Andrew Sutherland 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.
This seems overly complex. Also, a page can basically do this today by trivially changing the input's @type from "password" to "text". (And, obviously it needs to provide its own UI to trigger that.)
However, I _do_ think it would be a good idea for the browser to provide this functionality for all password fields OOTB. That provides a consistent UX for a function we believe is valuable. I think experience with autocomplete=off has shown that lots of sites have user-hostile notions of security, and will break features for dubious reasons. [Also, making it opt-in because of web-compat concerns would mean that it would get little usage. Whatever UI we provide should be suitable to be on by default.]
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