Daniel Veditz wrote:
>...
> If he's talking about form auto-fill, there's a preference to turn it
> off available on the preferences dialog.
>
> There's no way for a *site* author to turn it off, though. Not sure if
> that's a good or bad idea. It would help folks too stupid to think
> saving a credit card might be a bad idea, but make life harder for
> folks who want the convenience and are smart enough to save the credit
> card information security encrypted (as mozilla and Netscape 6 can do,
> but don't by default).
>...
You could take two approaches.
The first would be to require site authors to ask for sensitive
information (such as credit card numbers) in the form of password
fields. This may be a good idea anyway -- to stop me from peering over
my colleague's shoulder and seeing his credit card number.
The second would be to make encryption of autofill data compulsory.
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Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
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