Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

William Jon McCann wrote:
What do you think about using a black circle as the "invisible" character in password fields instead of an asterisk [1]? OS X and XP both do this.
I like them, and I think we should adopt them too.

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Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov
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