Comments on: iPhone-Style Passwords Using MooTools PassShark

By: Luis Merino

Luis Merino — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:09:31 +0000

@Chris Dary: She could have seen your password too if you’d ask her to look in your keyboard while typing. Wether you use this technique or not is up to you, also consider what “type” of website you are gonna use it for. Consider reviewing http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html.

@Aeron: That is easily solved by decreasing the “refresh” time (Class option ‘interval’), I didn’t want to force it by default for performance.

By: jai

jai — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:35:15 +0000

Excellent plugin. i liked it…

By: Aeron

Aeron — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:57:06 +0000

The version here actually could be improved by never allowing more than 1 character visible at a time… which is how I believe the iPhone works.

By: Aeron

Aeron — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:01 +0000

I tried implementing this on our e-commerce some months back but took it away after the first usability tests. It works for mobile because the screen _is_ the keyboard and the user understands from watching as they type what is happening. For desktop the vast majority of your typical user cannot touch type. So in our usability tests the user looked at the keyboard to enter their password, then looked up at the screen, saw the last character and purposely deleted it not understanding what it was. This resulted in frustrated users unable to login or creating their account with a different password from what they thought they entered.

By: Nickolas Simard

Nickolas Simard — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:31:31 +0000

Nice PoC of the iphone password field with Mootools.

I also doubt that it can be used in a live environment for the previously stated reason (someone spying over shoulder, etc.).

Maybe the script could be used for other stuff… like the Login/Username field, keeping the password itself safe.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:51:30 +0000

Like some people here already said, this makes just sense on mobile devices. Don´t use that for important stuff. I times of HD video cams you never know if your screen isn´t “big in pic” somwhere ;-)

By: Vincent van Scherpenseel

Vincent van Scherpenseel — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:41:56 +0000

Although cool, it kinda beats the purpose. Decent mobile phone browsers already implemented this feature on all type=”password” input fields. This is not really necessary for ‘normal’ keyboard based input. On top of that: javascript is too slow for this: with my typing speed it displays about 5 chars at the same time (running Firefox on the latest Macbook Pro).

By: Laurent JOUVIN

Laurent JOUVIN — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:04:24 +0000

I agree with Alex from above but this is a very cool script.

By: derschreckliche

derschreckliche — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:27:11 +0000

Nice plugin for a (in my opinion not very) useful feature.
It’s more like a proof of consept isn’t it?
At least before using it on a website, you should ask or warn the user – otherwise you may have some displeased users…

By: Tibor Szász

Tibor Szász — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:12:26 +0000

I’d rather suggest using opacity:0 for password inputs over a fake input background image :)
This is a nice proof of concept script, but this method only suitable for portable devices.