Comments on: Password Strength Indicator and Generator

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:41:44 +0000

@Ben that is quite possible, the code can be vastly improved to check against multiple caps, numbers and other characters.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:01:51 +0000

I tried ABC123 and it told me it was the best password possible. :-/

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:04:25 +0000

@brad v sweet, thank you

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:53:02 +0000

@Benjamin, yes the link will remain up. I also included what I changed to your code on the page.

Brad

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:46:18 +0000

@brad v, I’m glad you are finding good use for it. Will you be keeping that link up, I would like to link to it in the post?

By: Tane Piper

Tane Piper — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:41:40 +0000

@brad v
Good to hear you’re using it, I had just posted to code as your free to take it and do with it as you like. It hasn’t been up for a while, I may still stick it up along with the UI version. The UI version was just a test and will eventually be rolled into a whole form validation widget for jQueryUI.

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:39:03 +0000

@tane piper I’m currently using your jQuery Password Strength Plugin v2.0 for a project and like what you are doing, but not really wanting to implement jQuery UI to show 3 strength levels of a password.

@Benjamin code might not be as robust as yours, but for me it’s the perfect blend of simple code and ability to limit the confusion on the side of the user.

I thank you both for making my job easier and taking the time to write excellent plugins.

Brad

By: Tane Piper

Tane Piper — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:25:46 +0000

@brad v
You might be interested in my code for validation rules for password strength: http://bit.ly/wRn

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:17:17 +0000

I merged your code with some CSS from the MS Passport Registration page to only use CSS. Here is the example: http://projects.sharkmediallc.com/pass/ Brad

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:11:27 +0000

@Chris, if you don’t mind posting the style of what you will doing I would love to link to it so people can get and idea of the possibilities.

@Tane, Thanks, I’ll take a look at what you have going on at jqueryui. My original intent was to modify your plugin but could not find it for what ever reason. (at least I think it was yours but could be wrong) So I went this route as more of a POC. I will definitely take a look at what you have in the UI library.

By: Tane Piepr

Tane Piepr — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:53 +0000

Hey,

Great work on the plugin. When I released my one a while ago, it was very popular but this one definitely has more potential for customising the look and feel.

On this point though, we are working to create a widget for jQueryUI to handle all types of form validation, including password strength (http://jqueryui.pbwiki.com/FormValidation) and it would be great to see your input on it.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:14:43 +0000

I’ve always liked these password strength indicators. Nice balance of functionality and cool design. I may try and bust this out on a little backend I’m building for a client right now.