[whatwg] <input type="password">... restrict reading value from JS?

Dennis Joachimsthaler dennis at efjot.de
Sun Jul 10 13:11:00 PDT 2011


Hello,

Opera, for example, requires you to hit the "wand" or "login" button before
it even does any autocompletion.

I wish all browsers would implement it like this instead of just... Filling
it out before the user can interact. Makes reading easy.



Am 10.07.2011, 21:17 Uhr, schrieb Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf at coredump.cx>:

>> How about deleting the value if the input type is changed away from the
>> secure password input type AND that the secure password can only be
>> submitted to a similar URI.
>
> Instead of a complicated technical solution, some browsers require a
> distinctive user gesture before autocompleting login forms. But then,
> other vendors believe that this is unacceptable from usability
> perspective.
>
> /mz


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