- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:45:09 -0800
- To: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 1/17/09, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: > > 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. >> ... > > 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. > > https://www.dnbnor.no/ > https://secure.skandiabanken.no/SKCert/GIBCert/Login.aspx > https://www.banknorwegian.no/Pages/NettbankLogginn.aspx > https://ya.no/portal/ > https://www.terra.as/bsl/do/slogin/Run?n_bank=9615 > https://nettbanken.nordea.no/login/login/solo/login > https://www.postbanken.no/ > > 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. Many banks consider this feature critical. During early development of gecko several banks intentionally blocked mozilla because we lacked support for autocomplete=off. / Jonas
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