- From: Matthew Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:47:40 +0100
Lachlan Hunt wrote: >... > - Both users and user agent vendors complain to the organisation > about not allowing them access. They already tried that, and it didn't work. <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63961> (Don't bother complaining in that bug report -- it's four years old, and most of those involved no longer have any contact with Bugzilla.) > - Organisations excercising user-hostile behaviour to exclude a large > portion of their users either give in to the pressure. It's not a large portion of their users. For most banking sites, I suspect the *only* browser which they cannot economically get away with blocking for security reasons is Internet Explorer for Windows, and that browser already supports autocomplete="off". That's why I say the only way to kill autocomplete="off" in the short term is to convince Microsoft to de-implement it <http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-March/003185.html> In the long term, if browser usage becomes more diverse, the problem will become harder to solve; you'll need to assemble a coalition of browser vendors who agree publicly to de-implement it simultaneously. >... > This issue could be addressed by making user agents much easier to > configure for public terminals. Yes, and if you can help them implement that, you should. But banks aren't going to twiddle their thumbs waiting. -- Matthew Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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