[whatwg] Supporting more address levels in autocomplete

Qebui Nehebkau qebui.nehebkau+whatwg at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 19:57:11 PST 2014


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Evan Stade <estade at chromium.org> wrote:
> The majority of forms ask for tokenized data; my impression is this is
> necessary given their backends (be it columns in a user info database, a
> payment provider that requires tokenized address, etc.) So I don't think
> it's practical to impose address blob only on the web.


Right, "impose", certainly not. But, perhaps, (one hopes,)
"encourage"? Or at least "refuse to explicitly support anything else".
Does autocomplete *need* to support people who are already doing it
wrong? But I'm probably just being too utopian; it happens.



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