- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:32:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > I realise I may be a little late with this issue, since WF2 seems to be > fairly stable, but never the less I would like to note my objection to > the inclusion of the autocomplete attribute [1]. The "autocomplete" attribute is already implemented in user agents. There's nothing we can do about it. I included it in the spec simply so that it is at least defined somewhere, instead of being just something people have to Know About without being documented anywhere. > # Banks frequently do not want UAs to prefill login information: > > That may be so, but that still does not give a bank (or other > organisation) the right to enforce such policies in my user agent. The fact of the matter is, banks blackmail vendors into supporting this feature. Not much WHATWG can do about this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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