It seems reasonable to me that the autofilled property is only cleared when the text is modified by the user. Since it is a visible change in the behavior, there's always a chance that it will not sit well with everyone and we might eventually have to allow for both behaviors somehow. But it seems like a small enough behavior change that it's unlikely that anyone will care strongly about it.
John On May 11, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > HTMLInputElement's 'autofilled' property is cleared when the field gets > focused[1]. This has the visible effect of clearing the pale-yellow > background color to white. Safari only seems to use this background-color > highlighting for autofill of names, emails, addresses, etc., but Chrome also > uses it for autofilled usernames and passwords in login forms. > > In login forms at least, the current UI seems wrong[2]. That's partly because > the form is often filled in automatically when the page is loaded (so a > script that focuses a field on page load can end up clearing the highlight); > and partly because the password is unreadable, so it's impossible to tell > from inspection whether it's still autofilled or edited by the user. > > Are there strong feelings in favor of the current UI, or would it be OK to > change it overall so that the autofilled property is only cleared when the > text is user-modified? > > If the current UI needs to stay the same, could we compromise by changing the > behavior of the property in login forms only, since such a change would have > no visible effect in Safari? > > —Jens > > [1] See HTMLInputElement::handleFocusEvent, currently line 753. > [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38386 > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
