* Posts by Ben 10

7 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009

Masked passwords must go

Ben 10
Flame

3rd comment, as I'm so enraged by this stupidity

What about people who work in pairs at computers? Pair programming is a very common methodology among software developers. I don't want to have to cover my eyes every time the other guy types his password for source control, SSH, FTP...

Ben 10
Boffin

Hmm++

Yes, unmasked password boxes should be an _optional_ accessibility feature on browsers. Website authors should not be encouraged to replace their <input type="password"> with <input type="text">!!!

Ben 10
WTF?

No thanks Jakob

A better option is to display only the last character typed, but then to obscure previous characters as soon as a new one is entered. This way, somebody glancing briefly at your screen would not see your full password, but you would still get some visual feedback of the characters you type.

Password entry boxes on some smartphones do this, because some visual feedback is essential for the typo-prone on-screen keyboard.

Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance

Ben 10
Dead Vulture

Opera can DIAF for all I care, but...

Why do you publish this stupid asshole? If he can't figure out UTF-8 (which in terms of mental capacity required falls somewhere between not shitting your pants and tying your shoelaces) then he has FAILED as a programmer.

Ben 10
Boffin

dzubia, your website is more FAIL than opera

HAHA your site throws an error when you type multibyte chars into the search box! That's like a "my first web app" kind of mistake.

Instead of fixing this really simple bug you choose a foreign software company to write a rant about, just so you can slip in an asshole comment about UTF-8 to make yourself feel better.

Go back to school, Ted.

O2 tells Apple fans to talk to the hand

Ben 10
Stop

Seems fine here

I'm using Safari 4 beta and it works fine.

Catholic social club ousts coven of witches

Ben 10
Pirate

Oust these backward religions!

Too right we should have nothing to do with a weird barbaric cult who gather and pretend to munch on the flesh of their deity's offspring... oh wait that's the catholics!