Given show password has become an industry standard now. I am fine to revisit and do something here. Browsers are not budging. My original complaint was that this is not an app developers problem, but a browser issue and I thought the industry would simply catch up to Internet Explorer, but it refused to.
Personally I prefer the facebook/twitter approach and would recommend deferring this work till we build full screen login.
There are quite a few accessibility concerns here, and we have to be very careful not to torpedo password managers.
@awesomerobot thoughts?