On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > 0.0009 Attribute �autocomplete� not allowed on element �form� > > > at this point. > > > > That's very rare. I've removed the XXX in the spec saying we might add this. > > (IE supports it.) > > <form autocomplete="off"> seems to be supported by Firefox as well. > > It's used by several major Australian banking sites that I checked. > > These are 3 of the largest banks in Australia and their online banking login > pages: [...] > > These are some of the smaller credit unions in Australia that use autocomplete > on <form> only: [...] > > There's a big list of Australian credit union websites listed here. I > only checked a random sample, but many of them do seem to use > autocomplete on form rather than on input elements. > http://www.abacus.org.au/credit_unions/find/cuwebs.html On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > In addition to the Australian banks I listed, I went through a bunch of > Norwegian banks and found that many of them also seem to rely on this. > > [...] > > There were a few others as well, but they all either used > autocomplete="off" on the input elements in addition to using it on the > form element, or didn't use autocomplete at all. Wow, thanks for this data. I've added <form autocomplete> to the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:57:42 UTC
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