[Bug 9637] autocomplete IDL attribute should reflect the resulting autocompletion state

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9637


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

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




--- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-08-24 19:43:46 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale:

I haven't added "default" as a value of the IDL attribute, because that would
mean adding a new keyword to the attribute, and I really don't want to start
adding new features here. The empty string represents the attribute being
absent, this is a common idiom in the language.

I haven't made .autocomplete represent the current state rather than the
content attribute, because in general people complain when we do that (citing
defaultValue on <input>), and because in general I don't think we want to make
it possible for banks to detect when the user has gone out of his way to enable
autocomplete even though the page has disabled it.

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Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:43:49 UTC