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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Better Password Masking in Your WordPress Forms

Password masking is a technique used by developers to prevent someone from reading the password on the screen while the user is typing the password. However, password masking ends up causing many problems when it comes to the user experience. In this article, we will outline some of these issues caused by password masking and also some solutions.

In particular, we will focus on the user experience problems relating to password masking on the WordPress admin login and password reset forms. We will also create a WordPress plugin which adds a checkbox to the login and password reset forms to show or hide text in a masked password field.

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What Is Password Masking?

Password masking is a practice of obscuring all the characters of a password field. This is done to prevent someone from reading the password on the screen while the user is typing it.

Here is how a masked password field looks:

However, in practice this can cause usability problems in many modern computing devices which have either smaller keys for typing are using touch screens.

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by Narayan Prusty via SitePoint

Watch: Performance with requestAnimationFrame

Animation in JavaScript can be difficult to create, and even harder to optimize for performance. Learn how to get better at both with requestAnimationFrame! The screencast demonstration can be found in Codepen. You can find the mentioned link from the screencast here: http://ift.tt/12La0Sh

This is the first video of the series JS with Performance in Mind.

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by Tim Evko via SitePoint

Communicating between iOS Apps and WatchKit Extensions

Apple Watch applications that need data updates like stocks, weather, sports and transport information introduce communication methods between the parent iOS application and the WatchKit extension.

In this article I’ll show how to create this communication and introduce real-time messaging between them.

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by Mohammed Safwat via SitePoint

Anderson

'Anderson' is a One Page WordPress theme suitable for all kinds of use. The theme also comes bundled with the awesome drag and drop Visual Composer plugin and a 1-click demo installer. If you only need the HTML version head here. (The preview below is reduced in length, make sure you open up the full demo.)

by Rob Hope via One Page Love