[whatwg] [WF2] Objection to autocomplete Attribute

Matthew Raymond mattraymond at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 22 05:28:15 PST 2005


Henri Sivonen wrote:
> Like Hixie said, documenting the reality lets implementors know what 
> the real world requires to be implemented. Then let's just put in 
> hidden prefs for disabling it and be quiet about it so the clueless 
> banks don't notice.

    Documentation of the |autocomplete| attribute wasn't my concern. My 
concern was the mandating of a bank-friendly implementation in order to 
be compliant with WF2. User-empowering implementation should not 
automatically be defined by the spec as being non-compliant.




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