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Originally Posted by Gordon N
Even this isn't secure as Neilsen himself points out, if someone really wants your password and is staring over your shoulder they will be watching your keystrokes not your screen.
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Good point, Gordon.
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Originally Posted by Gordon N
Ultimately until W3C change the specs for the <input type="password"> tag, as far as the web is concerned things are unlikely to change.
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But web designers aren't obliged to use that tag. There's nothing stopping you using an ordinary input field for a password. I wonder how many of them use it either out of habit or because they assume it's the only thing to do.