Morph’s Developer Toolset – An Introduction

One of the lesser visible features of the Morph Framework is its Developer Toolset. Today I am going to briefly take you through the Developer Toolset, as well as show you a quick example of the toolset’s available options.

Later on in this series, I will take you through a detailed look into the individual tools that are present and how they can help you as a developer or designer, speed up your Joomla! website development and help you “go live faster”. (more…)

Tags: configurator, development, Joomla, Morph

New jQuery plugin targeting usability for password masking on forms

Last month, Jakob Nielsen wrote a blog post titled “Stop Password Masking” – a usability related article on how password masking on web forms, while providing a degree of “over the shoulder” security, is a step backwards regarding usability. Especially with the ever-apparent increase in the use of mobile devices to access online features.

While working on Configurator, the backend UI for our new Template Management System, Morph, we decided on including an option for users to show their password on the login form. This seemingly easy script however was not available as a jQuery plugin, and the only script we could find online used regular Javascript to add a “show password” option to login forms. (more…)

Tags: configurator, jquery, Morph, password, plugins, usability