Oct 8, 2026, 3:37 PMDo browsers provide a "show password" button (often an eye icon) in password fields now, or do websites still need to provide it manually if they want it? I'm sure some browsers do but I don't know whether it's enough that you can basically assume it's there or not. (I can work this out by looking, obviously, but I bet someone has worked this out already :-))
@sil Firefox has an implementation of this. We can’t enable it as it conflicts with all the ones people define in script!
@sil so something would need to change in the html spec to add an opt in attribute for it to work I think. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7293 Is the issue to follow I suppose.
Oct 8, 2026, 5:44 PM@keithamus aha! this is useful stuff... so every time I've seen it, the website's defined it! Therefore... I need to define it too myself, which obviously means I'm contributing to the problem :) but it's good to know this, thank you!