Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 11:59 +0100 schrieb Christian Dywan:
> Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:50 -0500
> schrieb Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>:
> 
> > Hi Federico,
> > 
> > If I can have a word on this:
> > 
> > The big circle is wider than most characters. 
> > 
> > Compare the following 3 patterns: (10 chars, monospace)
> > ●●●●●●●●●●
> > ••••••••••
> > 1234567890
> > 
> > When people type in a password they don't expect it to look much
> > longer than what has been typed, right?
> 
> Although the original question has been answered already, for the
> record, those three examples of yours have all the very same size in my
> font, which happens to be monospace. Beside that, the user is only
> ever seeing a number of occurences of a single character. So there is
> nothing to compare a wider or larger character to. The whole idea
> behind "invisible" characters is that they don't reflect the actual
> password in the first place.

I wonder if the default password character shouldn't be a style
property. In that case you could use big circles for the default theme,
small circles for monospaced themes and pumpkins or skulls for Halloween
themes.

Ciao,
Mathias
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