On Jun 21, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Jim Witte wrote:
So then it was a voluntary-but-coerced thing like the movie ratings system (in the US that is). But if banking sites wanted this, why didn't they then go to the W3C and ASK (nicely) that it be added. Yes, it would take time, as all bureaucracies do (and even the W3C is one, AFAIK). But they still could have gone on with the usage of MS's "embrace-and-extend" strategy while still waiting for the RFC to be processed by W3C.
Because they didn't need to. Once MS did it fully 90% of their clients were compliant. At that point, they could give anyone else an ultimatum: support autocomplete=off or we'll tell our users not to use your browser. Why go to the extra effort of asking a standards body to do what they want when this works so much faster? What's the payoff to the banks?
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