On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Michael Waldie wrote: > The thing I don't like about autofill is that quite often I'm typing > words similar to what is in the autofill but not those exact words. > Some that are shorter and then you press enter after the word and it > puts the word there instead of the what I'm after. Admittedly this > would not happen to just about everyone else, but I don't care for the > autofill feature being none existant. >
I think you're talking about IE's autocomplete here, not autofill. Autocomplete is a typical M$ "feature" that assumes that you always want to type the same thing, and as such is pretty useless, and downright annoying in something like a word processor. Forms autocomplete fill out all the fields in an online form according to information you provide in a standard profile, and is extremely useful. The Mozilla/Netscape version provides many more fields in its profile than the IE version, and it even has the ability to "learn" from similar forms you've filled in before. It also gives you a dynamic preview of the data before you let it go ahead and fill it all in. Tabbed browsing is nice, but this stuff is now an essential part of my browser use, If and when Apple put something like it into Safari, I'll switch full time. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
