[TYPO3-core] RFC #14390: Provide a way to see Install Tool DB passwords in the form

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Lars Houmark schrieb am 14.05.2010 23:09:
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> crazy stuff, I have started a similar patch some hours ago and amazingly
>> my JS-function is also called "togglePasswordField()". What are the
>> odds. :)
> 
> Damn! Brilliant brains think the same? ;)
> 
> I actually tried contacting you on Skype to tell you I was working on it
> (I had a feeling you might also be doing at least some initial work),
> but did not reach you. Please try adding me, username "houmark".

Yep, my Skype is really mostly offline. I will work on that, as it seems
most live communication go through that channel. I don't like the Skype
client (too "bloated" and not very userfriendly for chatting). Is there
a good alternative on Windows?

>> What stopped me from publishing the patch was the fact that this kind of
>> easy toggling doesn't work with Internet Explorer. You cannot change the
>> .type attribute of the input field as with other browsers!
> 
> Damn. Don't you just love IE? My IE VM is not running good these days,
> so I did not test this one tbh. Good excuse for getting it fixed I guess.
> 
>> You can try to clone the input field, modify the content of HTML using
>> outerHTML and then replace the original one, but.. argh, I gave up after
>> spending "too much" time on it (had other issues to solve...).
> 
> I will try to figure something out and post a v2 that will work in IE as
> well.

Fine! See my comments to Steffen too.

Cheers,
Ernesto