<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="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen Horlander created a quick prototype of how the show password placeholder should look and behave. Interact with it and see.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://codepen.io/anon/pen/WvOXZB" class="">http://codepen.io/anon/pen/WvOXZB</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s not a conventional use of a placeholder, but the internet is full of pioneering, risky applications of the placeholder: <a href="http://people.mozilla.org/~rfeeley/images/username.gif" class="">http://people.mozilla.org/~rfeeley/images/username.gif</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let's land this in Nightly and I’ll do some <a href="http://usertesting.com" class="">usertesting.com</a> tests to see how it makes users feel. It’s possible they might not like the idea of showing the password at all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMO it’s an improvement over other password managers that offer zero affordance and just show the password field when it is focused.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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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