- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:58:53 +0100
Jim Ley writes: > [support for autocomplete=off] > They don't block IE, yet IE allows you to override this in any number of > ways. Agreed. However, by default, both Mozilla and IE honour the autocomplete=off attribute. Banks do block clients that don't respect the attribute at all, and presumably would also block those that didn't respect it by default. IE is also 90%+ of the market, which presumably holds some relevance. I guess that they're ok that anyone savvy enough to set a hidden pref (for Mozilla; I *don't know* how to disable it in IE), is also someone that understands the consequences. I do understand your frustration about including this in the spec as a MUST, but then having no (strictly) compliant implementations. Whether the ability to disable something is strictly equivalent to non-support of an attribute, I'm not sure. Our choice is either: document existing requirements, meaning that it really must be a 'MUST' recommendation; or exclude the attribute completely, leaving support as something undocumented, but required in practice, for UA's that can store passwords. Regards, Malcolm
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