Re: html and password management

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com> wrote: > Andrew Ballard wrote: > >> >> >> I just thought I'd toss this out there. Do you know that there is an >> effort to remove browser support this attribute (or at least give the >> user a browser configuration option to ignore it)? >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.whatwg.discuss/3054 >> >> This article discusses some of the issues involved. >> >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/The_autocomplete_attribute_and_web_documents_using_XHTML > > That page says: > > "When writing HTML, such authors should declare and validate against a > custom doctype including the autocomplete attribute (example HTML document). > > However, there is currently no way to trigger the same user agent > functionality with an attribute in XHTML. This constitutes an unnecessary > obstacle to the adoption of XML-based markup." > > That page is wrong. > It took me 10 minutes in google to find a way to do it in xhtml and have the > xhtml validate. And I didn't have to use a custom DTD. Only thing I had to > do is send the application/xhtml+xml header - which I already send, as > that's the proper way to serve xhtml 1.1. > > I wasn't really taking a position on the issue. I just thought it worth noting that there seems to be a contingent that wants to remove the attribute. From what I read, they have already conceded to language that says a user-agent may choose to implement it, but is not required to do so. Andrew