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- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:24:07 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13602 Summary: autoassist attribute for input element Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: cmhjones@gmail.com QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org The input elements will benefit from the addition of a new attribute called 'autoassist' for authors to register that the UA should automatically provide assistance in the completion of the input field. This differs from the functionality of 'autocomplete' which instructs the UA to automatically pre-fill the input field with previously entered values. Example 1: The 'file' input type currently brings up a system-level modal dialog for selecting an input file when it is given UI focus. This behavior eliminates the possibility for a user to manually enter an absolute file location without having to dismiss a modal dialog. This would be eliminated by setting autoassist="off" which would disable any automatic popup of such assistance. Example 2: The 'email' and 'tel' input types represent items of contact information that the UA may have a corpus of data available from which to assist the user in filling out these fields. The HTML page author may declare they want the UA to assist the user in filling out these fields by providing a selection UI from which the user may choose a known value, or enter a new value. It is expected that other input types will also benefit from the inclusion of this attribute and that browsers are allowed to provide disparate implementations at a level of differentiation in the interests of their users. This source of this bug was discussion in the following thread: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-July/032645.html -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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