Christian Heilmann

On password fields masking and Jakob Nielsen

June 26th, 2009

Jakob Nielsen just posted on alertbox that we should stop password masking (you know, showing asterisks or dots instead of showing the password while the user types it in. His argument is the following: Most websites (and many other applications) mask passwords as users type them, and thereby theoretically prevent miscreants from looking over users’ […]

Creating accessible JavaScript menu systems – some basic steps that get forgotten

June 23rd, 2009

OK, so you want to write yet another collapsing menu/section/widget thingamabob. This is really easy and in the following few examples I want to point out some ideas that make it much easier for you. The following is what we’re going to build – it doesn’t have any bells and whistles like smooth animation, random […]

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