> I have never understood why I need to type my password twice. Inevitably I just copy what I wrote in the first box into the second.
You have to type it twice, because you don't see what you typed the first time -- it's a validation.
You don't see what you typed the first one, because that's "standard practice" for passwords, so that no one looking over your shoulder will see the password you typed.
That makes sense sometimes -- e.g., when you register for your new gmail at a starbucks. For me, 99.9% of the time, that's not an issue -- I'd much rather have a checkbox that says "press here to hide password".
You have to type it twice, because you don't see what you typed the first time -- it's a validation.
You don't see what you typed the first one, because that's "standard practice" for passwords, so that no one looking over your shoulder will see the password you typed.
That makes sense sometimes -- e.g., when you register for your new gmail at a starbucks. For me, 99.9% of the time, that's not an issue -- I'd much rather have a checkbox that says "press here to hide password".
But that's the standard practice.