I am not really concerned about the fact that the end user would be
irritated by the site trying to keep his credit card number
private. . .It's not our choice to make; the client wants their site to
be more secure and in their opinion this is one of the ways in which
they would do it.
I appreciate the responses, I assume that netscape does and will not
support a tag to toggle it off. . .anyone have any ideas of how
to "fake" or "fool" the browser? incrementing variables as input
names? Javascript?
thanks
Nick Sternberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Veditz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Stephen P. Morse" wrote:
> >
> > This thread is about password manager whereas your comment below
> > pertains to form manager. There is no automatic prefill for form
> > manager so sites are not concerned about being able to disable it
from
> > the server.
>
> Actually the thread *is* about form manager. A web developer asked if
there
> was an equivalent to IE's Autocomplete="off" attribute so that auto-
fill
> wouldn't fill a particular field, say the credit-card field, that the
web
> author thought was "unsafe" for the user to pre-fill or otherwise
wanted to
> make sure the user filled by hand and gave some thought.
>
> With this new electronic signature law I can think of another use:
you'd
> want to be able to turn off auto-fill for whatever field was used as
the
> (IMHO bogus) "signature" so the user couldn't come back later and
claim "Oh,
> I never signed that, the computer did it for me without my
knowledge". (I
> still think we don't need or want this feature, just exploring
reasons why
> someone might think they want it.)
>
> > Matthew Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > The second would be to make encryption of autofill data
compulsory.
>
> Now that PSM is fully open source we have more latitude to explore
this
> option. In the past we had to be careful to make sure everything that
used
> it degraded gracefully without.
>
> -Dan Veditz
>
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