> On Dec 12, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2014-12-12 6:16 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Martin Thomson <m...@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> Why not simply provide a way to show the password always? I believe that >>> Microsoft always provides the little eye icon in their new password input >>> fields. If anything, I'd have this feature on by default. >> >> Ooh, this is an interesting idea! > > Yeah, I think we should do this too. IIRC mconnor pinged me on IRC about > this at some point and I promised to help the person who wants to write the > patch! :-)
It’s all duped down to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502258 and I’d love to see this. Especially on mobile, it’s starting to become a glaring omission when apps _don’t_ have it. > > Might be worth enabling pages to >> know that the icon is there so that they can hide their own "show >> password" UI. > > Yeah, although I'd wait to see if website authors ask for that feature. > > About the security issue, we already track whether the value in the form > control is coming from what the user has typed or it's the prepopulated > value, and we can show the UI only for controls that the user has filled in. If the user can fill passwords, they can open pwmgr and see everything. I don’t think this is a huge deal. — Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
