Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-10-18 Thread Ilya Sherman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Ilya Sherman isher...@chromium.org wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Aryeh Gregor wrote: Government-issued ID numbers might be worth adding. In America, social security numbers are sometimes used for this purpose, but are treated as semi-secret, so you usually

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-10-16 Thread Ilya Sherman
Apologies for the delay of this response -- I kept getting sidetracked by other tasks... On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ian Hickson wrote: So we could define the autocomplete= field's value as follows: [...] I've now specced this,

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-08-03 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Smylers wrote: Ian Hickson writes: Also, I do not understand why we have credit cards types. Is anyone willing to have his credit cards information saved locally? Sure, why not? I am too, but I can

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-08-03 Thread James Hawkins
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Aryeh Gregor a...@aryeh.name wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Smylers wrote: Ian Hickson writes: Also, I do not understand why we have credit cards types. Is anyone willing to have his credit

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-08-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ian Hickson wrote: So we could define the autocomplete= field's value as follows: [...] I've now specced this, with some minor changes. On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, David Holloway wrote: A contact address might be helpful for sites that are non-commercial in nature. Airlines

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Are there any common fields missing from the list above? Government-issued ID numbers might be worth adding. In America, social security numbers are sometimes used for this purpose, but are treated as semi-secret, so you usually

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor a...@aryeh.name wrote: I would also like to point out that this feature seems to overlap with not only type= (as has been pointed out), but inputmode= as well, and for that matter pattern=. I think it would be quite unfortunate if authors found

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Smylers
Aryeh Gregor writes: ... in Israel, and I assume some other countries, there are national ID numbers that are considered public info. In the UK library user ID 'numbers' are useful on multiple sites. As well as the local library's own website, it grants access to many reference sites that the

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Smylers
Maciej Stachowiak writes: On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor a...@aryeh.name wrote: I would also like to point out that this feature seems to overlap with not only type= (as has been pointed out), but inputmode= as well, and for that matter pattern=. I think it would be quite

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Perhaps specifying certain autocomplete types could set defaults for pattern and inputmode? So for this example autocomplete=cc-num would, if pattern isn't specified, imply pattern=\d{16}, and equivalently for inputmode?

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Smylers
Aryeh Gregor writes: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Perhaps specifying certain autocomplete types could set defaults for pattern and inputmode? So for this example autocomplete=cc-num would, if pattern isn't specified, imply pattern=\d{16}, and

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Kornel LesiÃ…~Dski wrote: But even if single-mixed-login-field autocomplete was desired, then perhaps a mixed type would work too: input type=username email How about merging autocompletetype with

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: For some of these fields, autocomplete= as a hint to autocompletion seems sufficient. However, I think some may logically be a distinct input type as well. This is also true for the inputmode attribute. In particular its

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: For some of these fields, autocomplete= as a hint to autocompletion seems sufficient. However, I think some may logically be a distinct input type