Re: Autofill CG April 1st call - should we maintain it?

Hey Simeon!

Is this something you want to discuss during the call? Or unrelated to this
thread's title?

Generally, I think we want to focus on all things related to browsers
automatically filling out forms, without stepping on anyone's toes. (e.g.
if we'd feel like a new extensions API is warranted to solve some use case,
I suspect we'd hop over to the WebExtensions CG to hand over our
conclusions)

We should most-probably codify the above in a charter..

Cheers :)
Yoav

On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 11:51 PM Simeon Vincent <svincent@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a bit unclear about the scope of this CG. Is the focus on a specific
> proposal for a web API, the concept of automatically filling in forms on
> the web, or something else? I don't see a charter mentioned or linked on
> the CG's W3C site <https://www.w3.org/community/webextensions/>, GitHub
> repo <https://github.com/w3c-cg/autofill-cg/tree/main>, or the public
> mailing list archive
> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-autofill/>.
>
> This is pretty open ended, but I'm interested in exploring how web
> extensions should interact with autofill in a user agent.
>
> - What kinds of data are supported? For example, names, addresses, credit
> cards, public keys, etc.
> - Where does data come from? Is it manually entered into the user agent by
> the user, provided by extensions, provided by websites? (e.g. could
> contacts.google.com provide access to my contacts?)
> - When is data exposed to the browser? My gut feeling is that parties
> responsible for providing data will want to minimize exposure until
> absolutely necessary.
>
> Also happy to do some reading separately in prep.
>
> Cheers,
> Simeon
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM Yoav Weiss <yoav.weiss@shopify.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks!
>>
>> Currently we don't have agenda topics ready to be discussed on the call
>> this Wednesday.
>>
>> If you have a topic you want to bring to the group (and you're ready to
>> do so this week), let me know. Otherwise, we'll skip the call and reconvene
>> next month.
>>
>> Cheers :)
>> Yoav
>>
>