<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Though “click to show password” is different than “the password you type will be shown”, Luke W has written quite a lengthy post on this topic: <a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941" class="">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The icon is considered to be less obvious than text, but a more popular choice for localized applications.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are (or soon will be) collecting data on the usage of our “Show” control on Firefox Accounts. Much different context than “Do you want Firefox to remember this password?" but I’m very curious about the results.</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Ryan Feeley</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">UX, Cloud Services</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Mozilla UX</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 24, 2015, at 4:14 PM, William Maggs <<a href="mailto:wmaggs@mozilla.com" class="">wmaggs@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">An eye-shaped button with the same behavior? <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Justin Dolske <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:dolske@mozilla.com" target="_blank" class="">dolske@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">One small detail to think about: this works well in English because "SHOW" is nice and short. Other languages may need to use a term that's longer. I don't think it's a huge deal in the doorhanger, because we've got a lot of horizontal space. But if we're thinking about using this in more constrained contexts, it could be an issue.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Ryan Feeley <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rfeeley@mozilla.com" target="_blank" class="">rfeeley@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Great meeting this morning with Paolo and Stephen. We explored Paolo’s idea to provide an affordance for showing the password (on desktop) and came up with this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzspmbv6ebs8rp2/show-password.png?dl=0" target="_blank" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzspmbv6ebs8rp2/show-password.png?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">For now we’ll be using standard OS controls, which will not show the password, but for the new panel design, we hope to have something like it.</div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="">Ryan Feeley</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">UX, Cloud Services</div><div class="">Mozilla UX</div><div class="">IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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