Posts Tagged forms

TuesdayMay 18

Unmasking Passwords

Masking passwords is a great over-the-shoulder security feature, but hurts usability. Providing the option to toggle the password field on and off will increase a user’s experience on your site.

After reading Jakob Nielsen’s post, “Stop Password Masking”, I really wanted to develop a quick and easy jQuery plugin which provided the ability to toggle a field between a masked and unmasked versions.

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SundayMarch 7

Playing with jQuery: DragForm Plugin

In an attempt to both learn how to construct plugins for jQuery, as well as learning some of jQuery 1.4, I’ve created the DragForm Plugin.

So what’s the point? Why create a plugin for dragging and dropping form elements? I thought I’d try a different take on the typical web-form usability and created what I think is a pretty decent alternative.

Drag and drop elements have been around forever. It’s a pretty good metaphor in terms of describing to the user how certain elements of a user interface are to function. The web is a different matter however. Drag and drop, while isn’t all that new to the web, it hasn’t been as widely adopted with how web sites are designed and are meant to be interacted with.

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