[Bug 7871] there's more meaning to a password field than just being obstructed. it's really only for passwords / credentials. firefox stores them in the password manager, for example, meaning FF really gives it the meaning "password", not just "obstructed". the defi

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7871


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-20 23:55:04 ---
I disagree; there are use cases for which type=password makes sense, that are
not credentials. For example, a game where the user has to type in a guess or
bid, where it is plausible that other players will be near the user at the
time.

Password managers are just using heuristics to learn the likely values of
forms. There's not really any difference between that and the form prefilling
that browsers  do in other contexts, e.g. on this bug editor page.


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