Re: [whatwg] PSA: Chrome ignoring autocomplete="off" for Autofill data

I believe so, but I'll double check and will email you off this thread.

\i

On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 11:06:37 PM Evan Stade <estade@chromium.org> wrote:

> That sounds like crbug.com/354257 which was fixed in March. Are you sure
> this is still a problem on newer versions of Chrome?
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Igor Minar <iminar@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you going to properly fire change&input events when autofill happens?
>>
>> The current autofill behavior is causing major headaches for application
>> and framework developers and by ignoring autocomplete attribute you disable
>> the only way developers can work around this bug.
>>
>> On angular we had to developer a special hack in an attempt to fix it,
>> but it's far from ideal:
>> https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1460#issuecomment-33837127
>>
>> The browser should let DOM know when autofill happens, so apps can treat
>> user input and autofill as the same. Right now this is not the case and it
>> sounds like you are going to make it only worse.
>>
>> \i
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 11:20:28 AM Evan Stade <estade@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Chrome already ignores the prevalent autocomplete="off" for password
>>> fields. We plan to ignore this tag for Autofill (addresses, credit cards)
>>> fields as well. autocomplete="off" will still be respected for
>>> autocomplete
>>> data (e.g. past searches on crbug.com).
>>>
>>> We think this will break a very small number of sites that use
>>> autocomplete="off" for legitimate reasons, e.g. they use the Google Maps
>>> Places Autocomplete API, and don't want Chrome trying to autofill in
>>> addition. But it will improve behavior for a much larger set of sites
>>> which
>>> use autocomplete="off" for confused reasons as a part of, e.g., their
>>> checkout flow. We have found the prevalence of autocomplete="off" in top
>>> sites' checkout forms to be quite high.
>>>
>>> Currently this new behavior is available behind a flag. We will soon be
>>> inverting the flag, so you have to opt into respecting
>>> autocomplete="off".
>>>
>>> I am curious what other browsers do around autocomplete="off", and if
>>> they
>>> respect it for address/user profile/credit card type data. Since there's
>>> no
>>> way to feature detect the browser's behavior, it would be convenient if
>>> all
>>> browsers agreed on the meaning/value of the attribute.
>>>
>>> -- Evan Stade
>>>
>>
>

Received on Friday, 14 November 2014 16:12:54 UTC