[Bug 21148] New: Provide <input> element attribute to suppress input caching and/or prediction

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21148

            Bug ID: 21148
           Summary: Provide <input> element attribute to suppress input
                    caching and/or prediction
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: HTML.next
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: default
          Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
          Reporter: addison@lab126.com
        QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, robin@w3.org

Use case: an application has a screen for entering new user information. A
predictive keyboard cannot effectively predict people names, so input
prediction should be off. In addition, filling the field from browser-cached
form input data is not useful, as invariably the information needs to be
replaced.

Suggestion: add a new attribute for the <input> element as a hint to the
user-agent that populating the field with cached form input data is not desired
(and/or turn off auto-completion). Perhaps something like:

   <input type="text" name="fullname" private>

Or perhaps:

  <input type="text" name="fullname" autocomplete="false">

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Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:24:54 UTC