Hi All I just noticed that our discussion on "XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete" went off list.
I've posted this in hopes that others may benefit from the info. Cheers Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:00, Peter Asquith wrote: > Chris > > Thanks for the tip on the meta statements - I've found a Microsoft entry > at > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/ie/5/all/reskit/en-us/part1/ch01over.mspx > that explains the meta tags required to disable autocomplete. Excellent. > > Cheers > Peter > > Chris Blown wrote: > > >Peter > > > >You may be able to access this via the DOM using javascript and set this > >attribute to "off" for all INPUT elements. ( excluding submit and button > >etc ), though users could just turn off javascript. > > > >I also recall something about including no cache meta statements > >effecting how IE uses auto complete too. Might be worth testing out. > >Regards > >Chris Blown > > > >On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:44, Peter Asquith wrote: > > > >>Hi Chris > >> > >>Thanks for your prompt reply. > >> > >>We offer an on-line service so we don't have access to the candidates' > >>machines. I notice Ian Hickson at Opera Software is working on a > >>proposal for an XHTML module that addresses this issue > >>(http://www.hixie.ch/specs/html/forms/xforms-basic-1) but I can't find > >>any other mentions. > >> > >>Cheers > >>Peter > >> > >>Chris Blown wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Peter > >>> > >>>If you have control of the machines, then you should turn off the auto > >>>complete function from Tools->Options->Content. AFAIK autocomplete is > >>>not a standard attribute even in 4.01. > >>> > >>>If you are using XP Pro you can setup security in the Group Policy > >>>editor. This allows you to restrict access to these IE settings for > >>>certain user groups so they can't go and turn it back on. > >>> > >>>Regards > >>>Chris Blown > >>> > >>>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:08, Peter Asquith wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi all > >>>> > >>>>I'm in the process of validating the markup in a suite of on-line > >>>>assessment tools, which includes an ability measure. As you can imagine, > >>>>in situations where those being assessed share the same computer, it's > >>>>not acceptable for IE users with AutoComplete enabled to have the > >>>>previous candidate's answers defaulted! > >>>> > >>>>The autocomplete attribute is not part of the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD > >>>>and therefore any <input> tags containing autocomplete="off" will not > >>>>validate. > >>>> > >>>>The best I can think of is to sniff for IE (much as I'm loathe to revert > >>>>to last century's techniques) and insert the attribute on a case by case > >>>>basis. Does anybody know if there are workarounds for this or is this > >>>>just one of those things? > >>>> > >>>>Cheers > >>>>Peter ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
