From: Andrew Ballard > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> 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_us ing_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. There is nothing to remove. It is a proprietary extension and not likely to ever be accepted as part of the W3C standards. As such, it won't be in any W3C DTD, but will always require a custom DTD be supplied locally. Each browser supplier must decide whether to support it or leave it out. >From my viewpoint, the bigger need is to educate administrators of publicly available computers to disable autocomplete in the browser configuration. If they would do that, when you go to the workstation in the library, you can't see the credentials of the last user, and the next user won't be able to retrieve yours. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
