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 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 don't en

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 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, with so

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 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Ian Hickson 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 informa

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 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

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.

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Smylers
Ian Hickson writes: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Ilya Sherman wrote: > > > 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 understand why people who share their computer (and use

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 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

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Smylers 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? That would be surpr

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 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 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 Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor 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 the

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-25 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Ian Hickson 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 don't enter t

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 wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak 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

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 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 Telephone

Re: [whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Ian Hickson 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: >> >> >> >> How about merging autocompletetype with autocomplete then? >> >>

[whatwg] A mechanism to improve form autofill

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Hickson
[This was a long thread. I have omitted comments that repeated earlier points and those that made good points that were addressed in detail by earlier answers by other people on the thread. If you had a specific comment that did not receive a reply from me but for which you would like specific